The Department of Education (DOE) is no longer considering several masters degrees related to nursing as “professional” degrees. The distinction is part of the overall implementation of the Big Beautiful Bill’s new federal tuition loan caps for graduate degrees. The move has nursing organizations nationwide raising alarms. To clarify who can access larger federal loans as a graduate student, DOE categorized certain programs as professional,’ including Medicine, Pharmacy, Dentistry, Optometry, La

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