Does President Donald Trump’s administration consider your graduate degree “professional”? If you’re planning to finance it with federal loans, that definition will soon make a big difference in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As President Donald Trump's administration redefines which degrees are considered "professional," many graduate students are left ...

Nursing is no longer considered a “professional” degree under the Trump administration. The change, along with the elimination of a longstanding loan program for graduate and professional students, ...

The Trump administration has decided that, for student loan programs at least, nursing programs are not "professional" degrees. While the decision simply means nursing students will be subject to a ...

Change has come as a shock to those in these professions, most of whom are required to obtain master's or doctoral degrees before they can practice ...

WASHINGTON — The Department of Education has excluded nursing from its definition of "professional degree" programs as it implements student loan changes under President Donald Trump's "One Big ...

Under the proposed measure, students pursuing graduate degrees outside of ‘professional’ programs are limited to borrowing $20,500 a year, while professional degree students can borrow up to $50,000 a ...

The U.S. Department of Education finalized limits on federal loans for graduate programs on Nov. 6, and changes have sparked disapproval from many professional groups. Along with eliminating the Grad ...

WASHINGTON, Nov. 24, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) and state CPA societies strongly oppose any proposal that fails to recognize accounting as a professional degree ...