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The Department of Education’s 2025 proposal would narrow “professional degree” status from roughly 2,000 programs to fewer than 600 and recognize only about 11 core fields as professional (medicine, l...
The Department of Education’s RISE committee and draft regulatory text would sharply narrow which graduate programs count as “professional degrees,” reducing roughly 2,000 program entries to fewer tha...
The Department of Education’s negotiated-rulemaking process has proposed a much narrower internal definition of “professional degree” for the 2025–2026 list update that would recognize roughly 11 prim...
The Department of Education’s negotiated-rulemaking proposal and related guidance drastically narrowed which graduate programs count as “professional degrees,” removing many health, education and othe...
The Department of Education’s RISE committee has drafted a narrow regulatory definition of “professional degree” that ties the category to specific fields, program length and licensure pathways — a ch...
The 2025–2026 Department of Education (ED) guidance substantially narrows which programs count as “professional degrees,” cutting the eligible list from roughly 2,000 programs in prior practice to few...
The Department of Education’s 2026 regulatory proposal narrows the federal definition of “professional degree” from roughly 2,000 programs to under 600 and recognizes only about 11 primary program are...
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 RISE committee and related Trump administration rulemaking in November 2025 proposed a much narrower definition of “professional degrees,” cutting the list from roughly 2...
The Department of Education’s negotiators have proposed a narrower definition of “professional degree” tied to implementation of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA/H.R.1), which would cut the numbe...
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 Department of Education’s negotiated rulemaking under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) narrowed the definition of “professional degree” to an explicit list of about 11 core fields and tightl...
The Department of Education RISE Committee’s preliminary proposal for a “professional degree” definition under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) appears to exclude several public‑health and other...
The Department of Education’s recent negotiated-rulemaking proposal would narrow which post‑baccalaureate degrees count as “professional” by applying a set of concrete criteria: programs must be docto...
The Department of Education’s RISE Committee proposed a tighter definition of “professional degree programs” under OBBBA that would treat only some degrees (commonly medicine, pharmacy, law) as “profe...
The Department of Education’s 2025–2026 rulemaking dramatically narrowed which graduate programs it will treat as “professional,” cutting a previously large set to roughly a handful of core fields: th...
The Department of Education’s 2025 proposal would sharply narrow which graduate programs count as “professional degrees,” cutting the list from roughly 2,000 to fewer than 600 and explicitly excluding...
The Department of Education has proposed narrowing which graduate programs count as “professional degrees,” a change that would reduce which students qualify for the higher loan caps created by the On...
The Department of Education’s 2026 negotiated-rulemaking work significantly narrows which graduate programs qualify as “professional degrees,” cutting the prior list from roughly 2,000 to under 600 an...
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (often shortened to the OBBBA or “Big Beautiful Bill”) is a sweeping 2025 reconciliation law that remakes large swaths of tax policy, student‑loan rules and benefit law,...