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The Department of Education’s negotiated-rulemaking (RISE) draft sharply narrows which graduate programs count as “professional degrees,” recognizing roughly 11 primary professions and a subset of doc...
The Department of Education’s negotiated rulemaking under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) narrowed which programs count as “professional degrees,” producing a draft that recognizes only about 1...
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 2025 rulemaking narrowed the list of degrees it counts as “professional,” and several widely reported fields—most prominently nursing (MSN, DNP) and education (including ...
The Department of Education has moved to narrow which graduate programs count as “professional degrees,” excluding fields such as nursing from that category and thereby limiting their access to higher...
The 2025 reclassification proposal would strip many graduate health and social‑service programs (including advanced nursing, physician assistant, physical/occupational therapy, social work and others)...
The Department of Education’s 2025 negotiated rulemaking narrowed the official definition of “professional degree,” excluding several fields (notably nursing, public health, social work in stakeholder...
The Department of Education, through negotiated rulemaking tied to the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), drafted a new regulatory definition of “professional degree” that narrows which programs qual...
The Department of Education’s negotiated rulemaking in November 2025 narrowed which graduate programs count as “professional degrees,” cutting the long public list substantially and recognizing only a...
Available reporting shows the Trump administration proposed and pushed multiple actions that would reduce or reshape federal K‑12 spending: a 2025 “skinny” budget blueprint sought roughly $12 billion ...
The recent Department of Education rulemaking under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) has led to specific graduate programs — notably many nursing graduate degrees — being proposed for exclusion ...
The Department of Education’s 2025 proposal to narrow the definition of “professional degree” would reduce programs that qualify for the higher graduate loan limits — reportedly shrinking the list fro...
The Department of Education’s 2025 rulemaking narrowed which graduate programs count as “professional degrees” by tying the label to an enumerated list of fields plus programs that share their four‑di...
When a university (or the Department of Education) phases out or reclassifies a professional degree, the clearest immediate consequences reported in recent coverage are reduced federal loan access and...
The Department of Education’s recent rulemaking tied to the “One Big Beautiful Bill” (OBBBA) and its July 4, 2025 regulatory reference has prompted a list of graduate programs to be treated differentl...
The 2025 proposal from the U.S. Department of Education would narrow which graduate credentials count as “professional degrees” for federal loan limits by tying that status to a specific, narrowly int...
The Department of Education’s 2025 rulemaking narrowed which graduate programs it will treat as “professional degrees,” tying that label to the 1965 regulatory examples and to the One Big Beautiful Bi...
The Department of Education’s 2025 rulemaking would sharply narrow which graduate programs count as “professional degrees,” reducing the eligible set from roughly 2,000 programs to fewer than 600 and ...
The Department of Education (DoE) — via a RISE committee negotiating implementation of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) / H.R.1 — has produced draft rules that sharply narrow which graduate prog...
The Department of Education’s recent rulemaking sharply narrows which graduate programs count as “professional degrees,” cutting the list from roughly 2,000 to fewer than 600 and recognizing only abou...