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- Myth vs. Fact: The Definition of Professional Degrees
President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act placed commonsense limits on federal student loans for graduate degrees This fact sheet sets the record straight regarding the proposed treatment of nursing programs under new lending limits
- Fact Check: What definitions and regulatory sources did the Depart. . .
The Department of Education (ED) proposed a narrower regulatory definition of “professional degree” tied to the One Big Beautiful Bill Act’s new graduate loan limits, listing a short set of fields it would treat as professional and excluding many health and education programs that have historically been treated that way (for example
- Nurses criticize Trumps degree definition, fear impact on education . . .
Amidst the frustration, the U S Department of Education published a press release called: Myth vs Fact: The Definition of Professional Degrees
- What to Know About the Definition of Professional Degree
What to Know About Trump’s Definition of Professional Degrees Social media critics have focused on the fact that certain female-dominated careers, like nursing, are “no longer” recognized as professional
- Inspecting claim Education Department stopped counting nursing, other . . .
The Department of Education had, in fact, proposed excluding a wide range of college programs from the definition of "professional degrees" specifically in relation to eligibility for student loans
- What is considered a professional degree? The term explained.
Nursing isn't considering a professional degree for the purposes of student loans Will this impact the industry?
- Separating fact, fiction in Education Dept. ’s professional degree . . .
How did the Education Department determine the difference between a professional and a graduate degree? The department and the committee of experts largely relied on the text of the One Big Beautiful Bill, which defines a professional student based on a federal classification from the 1970s
- Myth vs. Fact: The Definition of Professional Degrees
Fact: The definition of a “professional degree” is an internal definition used by the Department to distinguish among programs that qualify for higher loan limits, not a value judgement about the importance of programs It has no bearing on whether a program is professional in nature or not
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