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Nursing Is No Longer Considered a ‘Professional Degree’ by Trump Administration Under New Bill
The new rules cap graduate and professional loan amounts, replacing Grad PLUS with a Repayment Assistance Plan under the Trump administration's education reform.
- From July 2026, the U.S. Department of Education will reclassify what counts as a professional degree under President Donald Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill, changing loan and reimbursement access.
- Under the bill, only students in designated 'professional degree' programs will be eligible for a $200,000 borrowing limit while graduate students are capped at $100,000, with the Grad PLUS program scrapped and Parent PLUS loans limited.
- The bill names specific professional programs including medicine, law, and clinical psychology but excludes nursing and engineering; RAP caps loans at $20,500 for graduate and $50,000 for professional students.
- Nurses and nursing groups warn the changes could reduce nursing students and worsen workforce shortages, with the American Association of Colleges of Nursing and American Nurses Association launching a petition.
- Critics say the 1965 regulatory definition and rising college costs, with tuition doubling over 30 years, deepen workforce shortages and workforce inequities.
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Nursing is no longer considered a ‘professional degree’ by Trump administration under new bill
Nursing has been excluded as a “professional degree” by the Trump administration as the Department of Education prepares to make massive cuts to providing student loans.
·Phoenix, United States
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