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Accreditation of professional degree programs in the U.S. is done through two, often overlapping tracks: institutional (regional or national) accreditation that judges an institution’s overall quality...
Recent reporting and agency materials show momentum to change which graduate programs count as “professional” for federal policy — driven largely by the U.S. Department of Education’s rulemaking and R...
Federal redefinition of which programs count as “professional degrees” and a flurry of revised accreditation standards across health, counseling, pharmacy and other fields are shrinking the pool of pr...
The reporting shows a chorus of professional organizations, advocacy groups and lawmakers protesting the Department of Education’s 2025–2026 redefinition of “professional degrees,” but the documents p...
Accreditation standards frequently determine whether a graduate’s education counts toward state licensure or professional certification: for example, graduation from an ABET‑accredited engineering pro...
Accreditation for professional-degree programs is governed by both institutional (regional) accreditors and programmatic bodies such as ABET for engineering and ACPE for PharmD; licensure for graduate...
Removing a program’s “professional” designation can shift how accreditation and licensure pathways are interpreted but available reporting is patchy about a uniform legal consequence; federal rules no...
Available reporting focused largely on counseling licensure changes and state psychology licensure rules; none of the provided sources show a single “new law” text that specifically lists or exempts “...