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The Department of Education and its RISE committee recently narrowed which graduate programs count as “professional degrees,” agreeing to recognize only 11 primary program categories for higher loan l...
The Department of Education’s new, narrower definition of “professional degree” would shrink the set of graduate programs eligible for higher federal loan caps and thus reduce borrowing capacity for m...
The Department of Education’s negotiated rulemaking (the RISE committee) sharply narrowed which post‑baccalaureate programs qualify as “professional” for higher federal loan limits, settling on roughl...
The Department of Education and its RISE committee reached a draft consensus that would recognize “only 11 primary programs” as professional degree programs eligible for higher loan limits under H.R.1...
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...
State licensing boards have shown mixed, mostly indirect responses to the 2025 federal reclassification of “professional” degrees: some national licensure organizations announced internal updates or c...
The Department of Education’s recent proposal to narrow which programs qualify as “professional degrees” rests on implementing H.R.1 provisions and a committee-developed regulatory definition; reporti...
Lawmakers, professional associations, and higher-education negotiators offered competing rationales when the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) altered federal definitions and program limits—supporter...
The change came from the U.S. Department of Education’s negotiated rulemaking work by the Reimagining and Improving Student Education (RISE) Committee, not directly from a congressional standing commi...
The Department of Education’s recent rulemaking and RISE committee discussions would sharply narrow which programs count as “professional,” with reports saying the department and committee agreed to r...
Available reporting shows the Department of Education and its RISE committee have proposed narrowing which graduate programs count as “professional degrees” as part of implementing the One Big Beautif...
The Department of Education’s 2025 negotiated rulemaking (the RISE committee) sharply narrowed which graduate programs count as “professional degrees,” excluding several health and social-service fiel...