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DAVENPORT, Iowa — The Department of Education has started the process of getting rid of the Graduate PLUS Loan Program and the Stafford Loan Program, replacing it with the Repayment Assistance Plan.

When policymakers and the public talk about student debt, they usually picture undergraduates: young people taking their first steps into higher education and making some of their first consequential ...

Hempstead, N.Y.: Nurse Practitioner Daniah Jean-Francois talks about the staffing challenges. Challenges that could be made worse by new caps on federal student loans for most graduate school programs ...

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Key Takeaways The Grad PLUS program will be sunset starting in the 2026-2027 school year. At the same time, some graduate students will see the amount they can borrow at the federal level ...

Graduate and professional school students are about to experience an unprecedented funding gap. Thanks to One Big Beautiful Bill’s elimination of the Grad PLUS loan program – which allowed borrowing ...

PROGRAMS AND THE AMOUNT OF DEBT STUDENTS NEED TO TAKE ON THE LAST TIME THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION UPDATED THE DEFINITION OF PROFESSIONAL DEGREE, IT WAS THE 1970S. SO IT’S BEEN SOME TIME THAT ...