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The Department of Education’s 2025 proposal would narrow “professional degree” status from roughly 2,000 programs to fewer than 600 and recognize only about 11 core fields as professional (medicine, l...
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...
The Department of Education's —driven by the OBBBA/RISE negotiated rulemaking—most directly hits graduate-level health and allied-health programs (nursing, physician assistant, public health, physical...
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...
Reclassifying nursing, social work and allied‑health graduate programs from “professional” to standard academic degrees reduces federal borrowing limits for affected students, a change advocates warn ...
The Department of Education’s late‑2025 proposal would shrink the list of “professional degrees” from roughly 2,000 programs to fewer than 600, excluding many health, education, and social‑service cre...
When a Department of Education (DOE) reclassification decision is reversed, available reporting shows timelines and required compliance steps vary by program and context: for teacher reclassification ...
Multiple kinds of institutions appealed Department of Education (ED) and Department of Energy (DOE) decisions in 2025–2026: universities and higher‑education associations sued or appealed DOE policy c...