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The Department of Education’s negotiated rulemaking in November 2025 proposed a much narrower definition of “professional degree” that would make many graduate programs ineligible for the higher loan ...
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 agreed to recognize 11 primary “professional” programs (plus some doctoral programs) that would qualify for the higher $200,000 loan cap under the O...
The Department of Education’s RISE committee proposed narrowing the regulatory definition of “professional degree,” reducing programs counted from roughly 2,000 to under 600 and thereby excluding many...
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...
The recent Department of Education (ED) / RISE negotiated rulemaking that produced a consensus definition of “professional degree” has driven most reporting and advocacy reactions in November 2025; ED...
Graduates whose degrees may be labeled “non‑professional” under the Department of Education’s 2025 proposal have several practical options: pursue bridge programs or alternative licensing routes into ...
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 (ED) proposed and circulated a new, narrower definition of “professional degree” in late 2025 tied to implementing loan limits from the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA); ...
Federal rulemaking tied to the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) has prompted the Department of Education’s Reimagining and Improving Student Education (RISE) committee to propose a narrower regulato...
The reclassification was driven by the U.S. Department of Education through work by its Reimagining and Improving Student Education (RISE) committee as it drafted a new, narrower definition of “profes...
Reporting shows the Department of Education’s rulemaking under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) and the RISE committee sharply narrowed which programs count as “professional degrees,” removing n...
The Department of Education is actively proposing and discussing revisions to professional categories and definitions tied to student loan eligibility and program design — notably a new “professional ...
The Department of Education (ED) in 2025 adopted a multi-part rubric that narrows which graduate programs count as “professional” for higher federal loan limits, concentrating eligibility largely on a...
The Department of Education’s negotiated-rulemaking under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) narrowed which programs count as “professional degrees,” removing many health and social-service progra...
The reclassification refers to the Department of Education’s recent negotiated-rulemaking to narrow which graduate programs count as “professional degree” programs for higher federal loan limits under...
Multiple organizations and the Department of Education’s negotiated-rulemaking body (the RISE committee) announced or reacted to changes in how “professional degrees” are being defined in November 202...
The Department of Education (ED) — via its Reimagining and Improving Student Education (RISE) negotiated rulemaking tied to implementation of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) — proposed and reac...
The most recent revision to the Department of Education’s professional‑degree classification grew out of implementing the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) and the RISE committee’s negotiated rulemak...
Available reporting shows the U.S. Department of Education did not quietly revise a long-standing, comprehensive list of “professional degree” categories since 2020; instead, in 2025 the Department (v...