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Public reporting shows no verified, public SAT scores for Donald Trump; multiple outlets note that his grades and test results were never released and that his former lawyer Michael Cohen testified th...
The Department of Education’s 2025 proposal narrows which graduate programs qualify as “professional degrees,” explicitly keeping roughly 10–11 traditional fields (medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, law, ...
The Department of Education under the Trump administration has proposed narrowing which graduate programs count as “professional” for higher federal loan caps, listing roughly 10–11 fields (medicine, ...
The Department of Education’s RISE committee has drafted a narrow regulatory definition of “professional degree” that ties the category to specific fields, program length and licensure pathways — a ch...
The Department of Education’s 2025 proposal dramatically narrows which graduate programs qualify as “professional degrees,” cutting a list reported at roughly 2,000 programs to fewer than 600 and reco...
Historically, a narrow set of occupations—most notably medicine, law, and teaching—have been treated as “professional” for policy and licensure purposes; that treatment connected degree programs to st...
Reporting in the provided sources does not list a definitive, single roster of “professions whose degrees were reclassified as non‑professional”; instead, recent policy discussions and guidance docume...
The Department of Education’s negotiated rulemaking (RISE) process landed on recognizing “11 primary programs” as professional degree categories eligible for the higher loan cap under the One Big Beau...
Yes — new federal law and implementing guidance create hard caps on Parent PLUS borrowing: an annual cap of $20,000 per student and an aggregate (lifetime) cap of $65,000 per student for Parent PLUS l...
The change removing nursing from the Department of Education’s list of “professional degrees” stems from the implementation of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), which President Donald Trump sign...
The Education Department’s negotiated-rulemaking outcome narrows the federal “professional degree” category to 11 primary programs (plus some doctoral degrees), which determines eligibility for the hi...
The U.S. Department of Education narrowed its working definition of “professional degree” in late 2025, naming 11 fields that unquestionably qualify and excluding many others — including nursing, educ...
The Department of Education has been publishing proposals and draft criteria that redefine which graduate programs count as “professional” — a designation tied to higher loan caps starting July 1, 202...
The Department of Education’s recent negotiated rulemaking would narrow which post‑baccalaureate programs qualify as “professional degrees,” affecting loan limits and prompting institutions and associ...
Michelle Obama was an active undergraduate at Princeton (class of 1985) who engaged with student organizations focused on race and student governance and used Princeton’s Third World Center as a socia...
Federal student loans now touch roughly 40–46 million Americans and finance about $1.6–1.8 trillion of consumer debt, shaping household balance sheets, credit markets and public finances . Research an...
The Department of Education’s 2025–2026 proposal for which graduate programs count as “professional degrees” narrowed the list used to set higher federal loan caps and excluded several health and soci...
The Department of Education has proposed a far narrower regulatory definition of “professional degree” tied to the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), a change that would make fewer graduate programs ...
Available reporting shows several 2025 policy updates that changed which jobs are treated as “professional,” “shortage,” or otherwise eligible for visa or tax rules — and those changes prompted contro...
Since 2020 many U.S. institutions — from small private colleges to large public systems and some research universities — have announced program eliminations, consolidations, or pauses; examples includ...