"Some social media users said President Donald Trump had signed legislation demoting nursing degrees from professional degree status or reclassifying nursing degrees as non-professional degrees. "The Dept. of Education just removed nursing from the list of 'professional degree' programs under the Administration's new loan rules - a move nurses say threatens the future of patient care," radio personality Angela Yee wrote Nov. 20 on Facebook."
"Graduate nursing students could soon face new federal borrowing limits, but these comments mislead by saying the Trump administration took nurses' "professional" classification away. Trump's sweeping One Big Beautiful Bill Act set federal loan borrowing limits for nonprofessional and professional graduate students. The first step in implementing those new loan limits is defining which degrees are "professional." An Education Department committee agreed on 11 professional degrees based on an existing definition in federal code; the decision is not final."
Reports of a rule change prompted online outrage asserting that nursing degrees were reclassified as nonprofessional. Some social media posts said nursing and other fields were removed from a 'professional' list. Graduate nursing students could face lower federal borrowing limits under new rules tied to the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. The act set separate loan caps for nonprofessional and professional graduate students, and the Education Department committee agreed on 11 professional degrees based on federal code; that decision is not final. Nursing was not demoted or removed because it was not on the professional list to begin with. The new caps do not affect undergraduates, and not all nursing jobs require graduate degrees.
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