ACE Issues Talking Points on Graduate and Professional Student Loan Limits

The American Council on Education (ACE), of which ASAHP is a member, has released talking points on graduate and professional student loan limits under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBA).

ASAHP is deeply concerned ED’s recent narrowing of programs that qualify as ‘professional’ degrees excludes health professions education. In November, ED launched the first phase of its regulatory process for the student financial aid provisions of the OBBBA, restricting the professions that qualify as ‘professional’ degrees. Unfortunately, ED's proposal leaves out essential health professions, including allied health, nursing, and public health, from the category of ‘professional’ degrees—ignoring decades of precedent affirming these fields as professional programs. Several bills on the issue have been introduced in Congress, and the Department of Education will be issuing a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM), which will have a public comment period before a final rule is issued.

The talking points are available here.