The Trump administration has excluded nursing from a list of career paths eligible for its highest graduate student loan limits, raising concerns on Long Island and across the country about a potential impact on the availability of the most-trained nurses.

The federal Department of Education is planning to impose new limits on borrowing for postcollege study, according to a proposed rule announced earlier this month. The rule, which is not yet final, would take effect in July 2026.

Nurses would face new annual limits of $20,500 and lifetime limits of $100,000 for graduate programs, such as the master’s and doctoral degrees that prepare nurses to advance their careers and become nurse practitioners, nurse-midwives, nurse anesthetists and nursing professors, according to the proposal. Thos

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