In July 2025, the U.S. Department of Education made a list of graduate programs it considered “professional degrees.” Some nurses were outraged to see nursing programs weren’t on the list. The ...

Graduate students pursuing degrees in nursing, architecture face lower caps on the amount they can borrow from the federal ...

A coalition of 11 nursing associations has filed a federal lawsuit against the Education Department's rule that excludes nursing from a list of “professional degrees." ...

A new Department of Education rule will exclude most nursing programs from the “professional degree” category.

The Department of Education has proposed changing the definition of what constitutes a “professional degree” to exclude nursing — a move that could significantly limit nurses’ access to graduate ...

RICHMOND, Va. — University of Virginia graduate nursing student Nelly Sekyere worries that proposed federal loan cuts could prevent future students like herself from pursuing advanced nursing degrees ...

This spring, Miami University's Nursing Department will celebrate a major milestone — its first graduates in the new online Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) degree program. The seven MSN trained ...