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A group of bipartisan lawmakers sent a letter to the Education Department urging it to add nursing to the list of “professional degrees,” which would allow students to take out more federal loans. New ...

New limits on student loans could reshape how the U.S. trains nurses and doctors. Under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, medical students would be capped at borrowing $50,000 per year. The Trump ...

Fewer loans for nursing students means fewer nurses – and less care for Americans everywhere. Nursing Students Need Loans Too A few years ago, on a cold March morning in rural Appalachia, an older ...

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 ...

The Trump administration’s plan to redefine what constitutes a professional degree would exclude nursing and limit access to student loans — outraging national health care groups and leaving nursing ...

Change in US federal education policy causes concern in healthcare, academic communities Nursing degrees, among others, will no longer be classified as “professional degrees” in the US, under a new ...

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The One Big Beautiful Bill Act sets new loan limits on what it categorizes as "professional" graduate programs. An Education Department proposal defining which graduate degrees fall into the ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Trump administration proposes excluding nursing and other fields from “professional” designation, capping graduate ...

The Department of Education under the Trump administration is restructuring federal student loans and capping the amount graduate students can borrow. Graduate students in programs classified as ...

A proposal from the Trump administration would exclude nursing from a list of professional degrees, a move that has drawn outcry from nursing advocates, who warn it could worsen the nation's nurse ...