U.S. Education Department Excludes Nursing from Professional Degree Definition, Affecting Student Loans
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Summary
The U.S. Department of Education has excluded nursing from its revised definition of 'professional degree' programs as part of implementing President Trump's 'One Big Beautiful Bill Act.' This reclassification affects graduate nursing students' access to federal loans and loan forgiveness programs, potentially exacerbating nursing shortages and impacting healthcare delivery. The move has drawn criticism from nursing organizations and bipartisan opposition, with 140 lawmakers urging the administration to add nursing to the professional degree list. The public comment period on this change has now closed.
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· 5 pulledThe U.S. Department of Education officially excluded nursing in its recently revamped definition of 'professional degree' programs.
This change occurs as part of the implementation of President Trump's 'One Big Beautiful Bill Act' (OBBBA) and has nursing organizations nationwide raising alarms.
Because the reclassification directly impacts how graduate nursing students access federal loans and loan forgiveness programs.
It also, according to some critics, threatens already-existing stereotypes about the nursing profession and could make an already critical nursing shortage worse.
140 Lawmakers, from both parties, sent a letter urging the administration to add nursing to the list of professional degrees.
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