Education Department broadens professional-degree list for $50,000-a-year federal loan cap starting July 1
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A federal court order temporarily broadened which graduate programs qualify as "professional degrees" for higher federal loan caps, prompting the Education Department to expand its eligible list. The change affects household financing conditions for a subset of students but does not remove overall caps set to start July 1. Market impact is likely limited and idiosyncratic, with any macro effects dependent on further legal actions or policy revisions.
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More graduate students will face higher federal student loan caps than previously anticipated following a court ruling last week. Beginning July 1 under President Donald Trump’s “one big beautiful bill act,” new graduate students would be capped at $20,500 a year, while “professional” students can borrow up to $50,000. On Monday, the Education Department released an updated list of over 20 professional degrees eligible for the higher limit during the court’s stay. The list includes registered nursing, physician associates and speech-language pathology.
