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The U.S. Department of Education has officially excluded nursing in its recently revamped definition of “professional degree” programs. This change occurs as part of the implementation of President Trump’s "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" (OBBBA) and has nursing organizations nationwide raising alarms.

Why? Because the reclassification directly impacts how graduate nursing students access federal loans and loan forgiveness programs.

It also, according to some critics, threatens already-existing stereotypes about the nursing profession and could make an already critical nursing shortage even worse.

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