These Grad Degrees Aren’t Considered ‘Professional’-Limiting Student Loans

The Professional Graduate Degrees Pharmacy (Pharm.D.) Dentistry (D.D.S. or D.M.D.) Veterinary Medicine (D.V.M.) Chiropractic (D.C. or D.C.M.) Law (L.L.B. or J.D.) Medicine (M.D.) Optometry (O.D.) Osteopathic Medicine (D.O.) Podiatry (D.P.M., D.P., or Pod.D.) Theology (M.Div., or M.H.L.) Clinical Psychology (Psy.D. or Ph.D.)
Ruling Could Limit Student Loan Access
The bill also eliminated Graduate PLUS loans, which graduate students have typically used when they had reached the limit of unsubsidized and subsidized loans offered to them. That’s led some graduate students, especially in nursing, to argue that it will be more difficult to afford their education.
The Department of Education pushed back on Monday, stating that most graduate students, particularly those in nursing, will not face issues with the new loan limits. The department also said that the majority of nurses do not hold a graduate degree, and its decision on which degrees are considered professional was not made to exclude nursing degrees specifically.