The department's proposal may impact how much money student loan borrowers can receive depending on the graduate degree they ...

The Trump administration’s implementation of the One Big Beautiful Bill redefines which programs qualify as “professional,” ...

The proposed changes would lower federal loan limits for graduate nursing students and has sparked widespread backlash from ...

Whether a degree is considered "professional" will influence how much reimbursement a student receives for their higher education.

Mikeie Reiland is a staff writer for Education at Forbes Advisor. Before coming to Forbes Advisor, he wrote magazine journalism for publications like the Oxford American, Bitter Southerner, and Gravy.

Veronica Beagle is the managing editor for Education at Forbes Advisor. She completed her master’s in English at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Before coming to Forbes Advisor she worked on ...

The U.S. Department of Education states that Nursing will no longer be classified as professional degree programs which will ...

With a Master of Arts in Teaching, you’ll gain the skills and certification you need to lead, inspire, and teach in middle school and high school—all in just one year. Calvin’s MAT is designed for ...

The potential rule would exclude nursing from the "professional degrees" category, capping how much graduate nursing students ...

Candidates for the master's degree must be graduates of an accredited college or university. In very rare cases, based upon an applicant's academic record or test scores, acceptance may be conditional ...

At the baccalaureate level, students graduate prepared to sit for the National Council Licensure Examination for Registered Nurses (NCLEX-RN). Impressively, 91 percent of May 2025 graduates in Iona’s ...