Full list of degrees not classed as ‘professional’ by Trump admin

Nursing is a no, but theology is a yes.

They’re rolling back women’s lib, one step at a time. We had 50 years. We weren’t even there yet and they’re taking it away from us.

This is exactly what our mess of a health care system needs ... fewer nurses. This is exactly what our uneducated voter population needs ... fewer educators. The downward spiral never ends.

It has also been reported that engineering, a business master's, counseling or therapy, and speech pathology will not be considered "professional" either.

Engineering is not professional? What a laughable sack of shit. We're going to have a lot of work ahead to undo this damage.

I look forward to improving our systems better than they'd previously been when trump and project 2025 showed up.

Audiologists? What do they have against people being able to hear? This isn't a full list, right? Are ENTs not considered professionals too? Tell me dentists are also excluded. Optometrist? Is it really just this one specific doctor? I mean nurses are important, but I'll admit that society does not respect them, or other non doctor medical professionals, as much. The only word I could think of to describe them in the last sentence was professional.

Seriously? Architect? Accountant? What exactly does the distinction professional even mean then?

At this point whatever Trump dies of is suicide.

Is POTUS on that list?

Today I saw the new Wicked movie. Afterwards, as I usually do after a movie, I went to the bathroom and checked my phone to see if Trump was dead yet. If he died, I was going to yell "ding dong the witch is dead", then I was going to come out of the stall and tell everyone in the bathroom that Trump was dead, then I was gonna play "no one mourns the wicked" on my phone

There is no other term for this beyond treasonous sabotage of American interests.

Who gives a flying fuck what this "man" or this regime says. He's a traitorous bastard that should be dragged out of office and hung from the neck.

Of course he thinks educators aren’t a professional degree. Fucker cannot read bigly! Even if we don’t have gud ejukaters nothing bad can happen, it can only good happen. Slavery and bible is frend.

First of all aren't audiologists doctors? Also where I live architects are considered engineers and saying engineering and medicine are non-professional is so absurd to me.

Also if people working in these professions could coordinate and organise a nationwide strike it would literally halt the entire economy.

What’s the consequences of this for those in those careers?

This is so out there. "We're not interested in running things, we just want to offend people." It takes neither a prophet nor a doomsayer to predict that this won't end well.

Students doing certain degrees may no longer receive the same amount of reimbursement for their studies now that the Department of Education is implementing various measures from President Donald Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill.

One measure coming into action is that whether a degree is considered "professional" will influence how much reimbursement a student receives for their higher education.

However, there are a number of what many see as "professional" degrees missing from the new list, such a nursing, which sparked significant concern among nurses and nursing organizations.

Thanks for looking this data up. I think you’re absolutely right on this.

Here is what is funny for me. I worked in public education for almost 30 years. All that time the state of North Carolina did not let me join a union but I could join a professional organization like NCAE. So now I am not a professional so can teachers join a union now? And after reading the article I see that it will be shutting people out of getting these degrees because they have to take out loans for graduate school and post graduate work. So basically those who are in the middle of studies right now can expect to be left high and dry next fall.

“It has also been reported that engineering, a business master's, counseling or therapy, and speech pathology will not be considered "professional" either.“

Well, AI can do the job of an engineer - they are just code monkeys. (sarcasm)

But the one I like the best - business masters. Stick it to the CEOs and corporate execs. According to Sundar Pichai, AI can do that job too! Karma.

When will we be able to exit the world of stupid?

43% of new architects are women

I see you writing "57% are not women", and I understand people choose their own path.

This is clearly a plan to minimize career paths for women.

At 43%? It seems like a plan to minimize THAT career path for all humans, with a mix that trends male slightly.

Is 43% still less than half?

Great, it's already a pain getting a decent audiologist…

The BBB got rid of direct plus loans starting 2026. Those are grad school loans that most people use to get any masters or fund PhDs that aren't fully funded.

So.

Literally every masters degree is impossible now unless you are rich.

I kept telling people it was in the bbb but everyone was worried about the medicaid medicare cuts.

Whole university departments are going to close.

No more doctors. Nurses. Lawyers. Engineers.

No more master level degrees for anyone except Nepo babies.

That's the plan in project 2025.