A rule change being considered by the U. S. Department of Education tentatively scheduled to go into effect next July would remove multiple degrees from the list of "professional degrees" eligible for special student loans and loan forgiveness.

The degrees the DOE would no longer classify as professional: nursing, education, physical therapy, occupation therapy, social work, audiology, architecture, physicians assistant, nurse practitioner, and accounting.

Still to be included as professional degrees among the obvious ones like doctor of medicine and dentist are theology and chiropractic. Theology? And worse chiropractic, the grift "discovered" by a guy who used to go around the country giving people small electric shocks with a hand-cranked generator to "cure" everything from cancer to VD? Really? Those are still a professional degree but not those listed above like architecture or nursing? Disgraceful.

It's worth noting that the current Secretary of Education has a BA in French. I know several people with a 4-year BSci in Nursing and who then passed a very rigorous test called the NCLEX to get their licenses who would like to have a little chat with former "professional" wrestling promoter mademoiselle McMahon.