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The Department of Education, implementing the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), and its RISE negotiated rulemaking committee have proposed a new, narrower regulatory definition of “professional degr...
The Department of Education’s recent negotiated-rulemaking proposal would sharply narrow which graduate programs count as “professional degrees,” removing many health‑and‑service fields — notably nurs...
Available reporting shows the Department of Education’s 2025 negotiated proposal (from the RISE process implementing the One Big Beautiful Bill Act) sharply narrowed which graduate programs qualify as...
The Department of Education (ED) and its RISE negotiated-rulemaking committee narrowed the agency’s working definition of “professional degree” to 11 named fields and a set of criteria — emphasizing d...
The Department of Education’s proposal narrows the federal definition of “professional degree” using a set of specific criteria developed during rulemaking tied to H.R.1, with the goal of reducing the...
The Department of Education’s 2025 negotiated-rulemaking and proposal set a multi-part test that narrows which post‑baccalaureate programs count as “professional” for higher federal loan limits: the p...
The Department of Education’s negotiated rulemaking and draft regulations sharply narrows which graduate programs it will treat as “professional degrees,” recognizing only a small set of primary field...
The Department of Education (ED) has narrowed its working definition of “professional degree” in recent rulemaking tied to the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), cutting the list of programs consider...
The most recent, substantive revisions to what counts as a “professional” or “professional student” classification in federal higher-education rules took place during Department of Education negotiate...
The Department of Education’s 2025 negotiated-rulemaking and committee work substantially narrowed which programs qualify as “professional degrees” for federal loan rules, reducing a broad earlier lis...
The available reporting shows the U.S. Department of Education and its RISE negotiated-rulemaking committee sharply narrowed which graduate programs it will call “professional” for higher federal loan...
The Department of Education’s negotiated proposal would narrow the set of graduate programs eligible as “professional” — excluding many public‑health, social‑work, nursing and some other health progra...
The Department of Education — via a RISE negotiated rulemaking tied to OBBBA/H.R.1 — agreed to recognize a narrow set of programs as “professional” and ultimately limited that list to 11 primary progr...