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Ellen Keast

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Nov 25, 2025

What exact wording did the Department of Education originally use regarding nursing as a professional degree?

The Department of Education’s recent rule text omits nursing from the list of fields it explicitly labels as “professional degrees,” and the agency says that omission aligns with a long‑standing regul...

Nov 22, 2025

What exact Department of Education document or statement labeled nursing as not a 'professional' degree and when was it published?

The Department of Education’s recent implementation of provisions from the “One Big Beautiful Bill” led the agency to publish a list of programs it counts as “professional degree” programs for new loa...

Nov 22, 2025

What exact wording did the Department of Education use to describe nursing as not a 'professional' degree?

The Department of Education’s recent implementation of the One Big Beautiful Bill narrows which graduate programs it labels “professional degrees,” and its listed programs does not include nursing (MS...

Nov 21, 2025

Which institutions or accrediting bodies initiated the reclassification of those degrees as non-professional?

The reclassification effort originates from actions by the U.S. Department of Education — specifically work by a Department-convened committee called the Reimagining and Improving Student Education (R...

Nov 21, 2025

What exactly did the Department of Education say about nursing not being a professional degree and where is the guidance published?

The Department of Education has proposed a new, narrower regulatory definition of “professional degree” that — according to reporting and statements from nursing groups — would exclude most nursing gr...