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The Department of Education (ED) proposed a tighter definition of “professional degrees” for 2025–26 that would shrink programs treated as professional from roughly 2,000 to fewer than 600 and limit e...
The Department of Education’s RISE committee and draft regulatory text would sharply narrow which graduate programs count as “professional degrees,” reducing roughly 2,000 program entries to fewer tha...
The Department of Education’s 2025–2026 reclassification effort significantly narrowed which degree titles the agency will treat as “professional,” reducing the roster of eligible programs to a small ...
The 2025 reconciliation law (P.L. 119‑21, “One Big Beautiful Bill Act”) changes Pell Grant eligibility by adding short-term “Workforce Pell” programs (150–599 clock hours), by excluding students from ...
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’s 2026 rulemaking would adopt a much narrower legal definition of “professional degree,” recognizing roughly a small set of traditional fields as professional and excluding...
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 2026 regulatory proposal narrows the federal definition of “professional degree” from roughly 2,000 programs to under 600 and recognizes only about 11 primary program are...
The 2025 reconciliation law and subsequent Education Department rulemaking sharply narrow which graduate programs count as “professional,” end the Grad PLUS program for new borrowers, and set new annu...
The Department of Education’s negotiators have proposed a narrower definition of “professional degree” tied to implementation of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA/H.R.1), which would cut the numbe...
The Department of Education’s negotiated rulemaking in 2025 changed how it will define “professional degrees,” narrowing eligibility and potentially reducing access to higher federal loan limits for m...
The Department of Education’s proposed 2025–26 redefinition of “professional degree” would shrink programs considered professional from roughly 2,000 to fewer than 600 and explicitly excludes many hea...
The Department of Education under the Trump administration has proposed narrowing which programs count as “professional degrees,” a change that multiple outlets report would remove nursing, public hea...
The Department of Education (ED) issued a policy change in November 2025 that has led multiple outlets and advocacy groups to report that graduate nursing programs and other health-related fields have...
The Department of Education’s negotiated rulemaking under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) narrowed the definition of “professional degree” to an explicit list of about 11 core fields and tightl...
The Department of Education’s recent negotiated-rulemaking proposal would narrow which post‑baccalaureate degrees count as “professional” by applying a set of concrete criteria: programs must be docto...
The Department of Education’s negotiated-rulemaking work for implementation of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) would sharply narrow which graduate programs count as “professional” for higher lo...
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...
The available reporting shows a recent federal policy change tied to the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) and Department of Education rulemaking that narrows which graduate programs are treated as “...
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...