It may have just gotten harder to land a graduate nursing degree in Delaware and beyond.

Confusion has swirled after the U.S. Department of Education left nursing and other areas of study off a list of "professional" degrees in a proposed rule over student loan borrowing. Not falling under that definition could weaken student access to funding to enter the field.

The controversy refers to a loose list of graduate-level career paths that could qualify for larger federal loans.

That list – stemming from a 1965 federal law that defined professional as signifying "both completion of the academic requirements for beginning practice in a given profession and a level of professional skill beyond that normally required for a bachelor's degree" – has found a newfound importance as the Trump

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