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The Department of Education’s draft ties “professional degree” status to strict criteria, excluding many health and social-service degrees
The Department of Education’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) lists 11 fields of study that it treats as “professional degree” programs eligible for the higher Direct Loan limits reached in negot...
The reclassification of many graduate programs as not “professional” has been presented in reporting as a Department of Education policy enacted under the Trump administration and tied to President Tr...
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 Department of Education’s recent attempt to narrowly define “professional degree” invites several predictable legal attacks: claims that the agency’s rule is inconsistent with statutory text and e...
The Department of Education’s negotiated-rulemaking output and related agency materials indicate the agency proposed to reserve the higher “professional” loan limits principally for traditionally high...