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The Department of Education’s 2025 proposal narrows its definition of “professional degree” to a short list of fields — reportedly medicine, pharmacy, dentistry, optometry, law, veterinary medicine, o...
Many professions require formal licensure or certification; health care (doctors, nurses, counselors), education (teachers), accounting (CPAs), and IT/security roles commonly demand specific credentia...
Federal actions in late November 2025 to narrow the federal definition of “professional degree” have prompted widespread concern about student aid and workforce pipelines; reporting and fact-checkers ...
The Department of Education’s 2025 proposal to narrow the federal definition of “professional degrees” concentrates losses of graduate loan capacity in healthcare, education, social work, and allied f...
The Department of Education’s proposed narrow definition of “professional degree” would remove many nursing, public‑health, social‑work, education and allied‑health graduate credentials from eligibili...
The U.S. Department of Education’s recent narrowing of what it calls “professional degrees” -- cutting the list from roughly 2,000 programs to fewer than 600 in the new proposal -- removes widely reco...
State licensing boards have shown mixed, mostly indirect responses to the 2025 federal reclassification of “professional” degrees: some national licensure organizations announced internal updates or c...
There is no single, compiled list in the provided sources naming specific academic degrees that have been de-accredited or that have lost licensing pathways since 2015; reporting and policy documents ...
Available reporting in the provided sources documents a late‑2025 Department of Education rulemaking that narrowed which graduate programs count as “professional degrees” for federal loan caps and sho...
The Department of Education’s late‑2025 rulemaking would narrow the federal definition of “professional degree,” removing fields such as nursing, social work, many allied‑health programs and several a...
The Department of Education’s late‑2025 rulemaking would sharply narrow which graduate programs qualify as “professional degrees,” keeping roughly a single-digit list (medicine, law, dentistry, pharma...
The Department of Education’s late‑2025 proposal to narrow the federal definition of “professional degree” would cut the list from roughly 2,000 programs to fewer than 600 and remove graduate loan acc...
The Department of Education’s 2025 regulatory proposal narrows which graduate programs count as “professional degrees,” meaning most graduate programs would face lower federal borrowing caps and many ...
Removing a program’s “professional” designation can shift how accreditation and licensure pathways are interpreted but available reporting is patchy about a uniform legal consequence; federal rules no...