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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 Department of Education’s late‑2025 proposal narrows its list of “professional degree” programs to about 11 fields — removing many graduate programs that had previously been treated as professiona...
The Department of Education’s 2025 rulemaking process narrowed the category of “professional degree” programs to a short list of fields and applied a new definition tied to program length and licensur...
The Department of Education’s negotiated rulemaking under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) proposed narrowing which graduate programs count as “professional degrees,” a change that would lower b...
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 Trump administration did issue executive orders and related federal actions that instructed agencies to examine and loosen federal rules affecting advanced practice nurses (APRN) and Medicare part...
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) changed federal rules that cut Medicaid and delayed nursing-home staffing mandates and also tightened graduate student loan rules that nursing leaders say could ...
The available reporting shows the Trump administration’s 2025 “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” changed the Department of Education’s regulatory definition so that nursing — and related programs such as nu...
The Department of Education’s recent RISE/OBBBA proposal would narrow which graduate programs count as “professional degrees,” effectively excluding many fields often treated as professional (nursing ...
The Department of Education’s 2025 proposal to narrow the federal definition of “professional degrees” reportedly removes many health‑related and other advanced programs from that category — nursing, ...
The Department of Education’s RISE committee has proposed a narrow regulatory definition of “professional degree” tied to a short list of 11 program areas and specific 4‑digit CIP codes, a change that...
There is no comprehensive public source in the provided reporting that lists annual counts of U.S.-trained nurses who became licensed in Canada for each year 2020–2025, so an exact year-by-year answer...
Multiple reputable news outlets did not simply repeat an unattributed "quote about nurses" from President Trump; instead, NBC, PBS, PolitiFact, Snopes and other outlets independently reported and fact...
The Department of Education, implementing loan provisions of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), has narrowed the federal definition of “professional degree” to a short list of 11 fields — includi...
The Trump administration’s Department of Education revised the federal regulatory definition of “professional degree” and proposed loan-rule changes that would exclude nursing and many other health an...
Multiple news outlets and specialty publications report that the U.S. Department of Education, implementing parts of President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” (OBBBA), has excluded nursing pro...
Federal and trade responses to the Department of Education’s 2025–2026 “professional degree” list changes are already visible in national media and professional outlets: nursing organizations and advo...
The Department of Education’s 2025 proposal would sharply narrow which programs count as “professional degrees” for federal loan limits, cutting the list from roughly 2,000 to fewer than 600 and expli...
The Department of Education’s recent negotiated rulemaking and draft guidance propose narrowing which graduate programs count as “professional degrees,” with nursing (MSN, DNP), social work (MSW, DSW)...
The Department of Education’s (ED) recent rulemaking to define which post‑baccalaureate programs count as “professional degrees” primarily affects eligibility for higher federal graduate loan limits; ...