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The Department of Education’s negotiated-rulemaking committee in November 2025 agreed on a much narrower definition of “professional degree” that would leave many graduate programs out of the higher f...
The Department of Education’s negotiated rulemaking (RISE) process landed on recognizing “11 primary programs” as professional degree categories eligible for the higher loan cap under the One Big Beau...
The Department of Education has been publishing proposals and draft criteria that redefine which graduate programs count as “professional” — a designation tied to higher loan caps starting July 1, 202...
Available reporting shows the U.S. Department of Education (ED) negotiators and the RISE committee have proposed narrowing which post‑baccalaureate programs qualify as “professional degrees,” a move t...
The Department of Education’s 2026 proposed definition sharply narrows which graduate programs count as “professional,” explicitly excluding a swath of health and social‑service degrees while listing ...
The Department of Education (ED) revised its working definition of “professional degrees” for 2025–2026 to narrow which graduate programs qualify for the highest federal graduate loan caps — identifyi...
The Department of Education released a proposed definition and guidance that sharply narrows which graduate programs qualify as “professional degrees,” and agency materials and reporting show the prop...
The Education Department told negotiators and the press that it is narrowing the federal definition of “professional degree” to align with long‑standing regulatory language and to limit high graduate ...
The available reporting shows the Department of Education circulated a 2025 proposal that narrows which post‑baccalaureate programs it would treat as “professional” for higher loan caps, explicitly in...
The Department of Education, under the Trump administration’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, proposed a new regulatory definition that excludes many nursing graduate programs from the list of “profession...
Federal actions under the Trump administration’s 2025 “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” and related Education Department rulemaking reclassified which graduate degrees count as “professional,” excluding nu...
The administration’s recent education reforms reclassified nursing programs so they are no longer counted as “professional degrees,” which lowers the federal loan caps available to many nursing studen...
You can’t find a single official “side‑by‑side changelog” in the provided reporting; coverage shows the Department of Education issued a new proposal and lists that shrink the set of programs the agen...
The Department of Education under the Trump administration moved to exclude nursing graduate programs from its definition of “professional degree” as part of implementing the One Big Beautiful Bill Ac...
The Department of Education’s 2025–2026 negotiated-rulemaking work focused on creating a definition to separate “professional” from “nonprofessional” post‑baccalaureate programs for the purpose of new...
Federal and regulatory debates in 2025 over who counts as holding a “professional degree” center on loan-eligibility rules tied to H.R. 1 and the Department of Education’s rulemaking; the Department’s...
The U.S. Department of Education has led a recent effort to narrow which post‑baccalaureate programs qualify as “professional degrees,” proposing to shrink long lists of eligible programs and thus lim...
Available reporting and documents show widespread discussion in 2025 about the U.S. Department of Education proposing a narrower definition of “professional degree programs” for higher-loan limits and...
Accreditation bodies’ reactions to the 2025 reclassification of “professional degrees” are not comprehensively documented in the supplied reporting; coverage focuses mainly on Department of Education ...
The agency that revised how it classifies “professional” post‑baccalaureate degrees is the U.S. Department of Education, which unveiled a new definition as part of negotiated rulemaking tied to implem...