Nursing Excluded As "Professional" Degree By Trump's Dept. Of Education

FG Trade Latin/E+/Getty ImagesEarlier this month, the Department of Education reached a consensus on how to implement the Big Beautiful Bill’s student loan-related edict: “to place commonsense limits and guardrails on future student loan borrowing,” according to a press release from the agency. The bill was signed into law by President Donald Trump this July, setting new lifetime borrowing caps of $100,000 for graduate students and $200,000 for professional students. This month’s committee finally established what degrees count as “professional,” and notably, no nursing degrees made the cut.Th