After a court ruling, the Education Department issued a new rule that includes dozens more programs in the higher ...

A federal judge temporarily blocked the Education Department’s narrow definition of “professional degree,” reopening a fight ...

With our state already suffering a shortage of nurses and nursing faculty, proposed legislation has troubling potential.

A legal challenge to a law that takes effect this week has doubled the amount certain graduate students can borrow from the ...

Student loan caps take effect July 1, raising borrowing limits for advanced nursing and healthcare degrees under new Education Department rules.

New student loan rules narrow who counts as a professional student — and which borrowers qualify for higher federal loan ...

The Department of Education has temporarily widened the types of degree programs that qualify for the higher ...

A federal court ruled that the Education Department's proposed borrowing caps for advanced healthcare programs cannot take effect on July 1.

Community colleges are playing an important role in training the workforce for economic development in the state, Chancellor ...

A new law limits federal loans to aspiring nurse practitioners to $20,500 a year—less than half what would-be podiatrists, chiropractors and optometrists can borrow.

But also declines to eliminate the graduate loan caps altogether. Proponents of eliminating all caps on taxpayer subsidized ...

The University of Health Sciences has introduced stricter PhD eligibility criteria requiring scholars to attend three national and one international conference before earning their doctoral degree.