(Gray News) – Nursing has been excluded as a “professional degree” by the Trump administration as the Department of Education prepares to make massive cuts to providing student loans.

The details are laid out in President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill.”

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Under this bill, only “professional degree” students will be eligible for the higher loan limit of $200,000, while graduate students are capped at $100,000, Newsweek reports .

In the bill, the Department of Education classifies the following degree programs as “professional”:

Medicine

Pharmacy

Dentistry

Optometry

Law

Veterinary medicine

Osteopathic medicine

Podiatry

Chiropractic

Theology

Clinical psychology

Noticeably absent from the list are nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assis

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