The Department of Education has excluded nursing as a "professional degree" program as it sets about implementing various measures regarding student loans laid out in President Donald Trump's 'One Big Beautiful Bill.'

The move has sparked significant uproar among nurses and nursing groups, with the American Nurses Association saying, as reported by Nursing World, that "limiting nurses’ access to funding for graduate education threatens the very foundation of patient care."

Newsweek has contacted the Department of Education via email for comment.

Why It Matters

The change will impact hundreds of thousands of students - there are over 260,000 students currently enrolled in entry-level Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) programs and around 42,000 students enrolled in Associate Degree i

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