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Posted on 05/02/2026 5:50:40 AM PDT by Twotone
The U.S. Department of Education announced Thursday that it has finalized rules to to help stop colleges and universities from charging exorbitant amounts in tuition, paid for by taxpayers.
“For 20 years, colleges and universities have been able to charge virtually unlimited tuition for their programs, despite the fact that many graduates see very little or no return on investment, the results of this decades long policy on American graduates are staggering,” Nicholas Kent, Under Secretary of Education, said on a press call Thursday. “American families live within their means, and it’s time for colleges and universities to do the same.”
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The final rule, set to take effect July 1, has four primary provisions, including borrowing caps for graduate and professional students. The department is eliminating the Grad PLUS program, which allowed graduate and professional students to borrow up to the full cost of attendance.
Graduate students will be limited to an annual cap of $20,500, with a lifetime cap of $100,000, while professional students will have an annual cap of $50,000 and a lifetime cap of $200,000.
The rules also alter the definition of “professional” degrees to pharmacy, dentistry, veterinary medicine, chiropractic, law, medicine, optometry, osteopathic medicine, podiatry, theology, and clinical psychology.
Some programs, like postgraduate nursing, are no longer eligible.
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But..but...my dream school
That's a more reliable job than most of the rest on the list.
I worked with MA’s in nursing. None of them actually ‘nurse’. The only reason to get an MA in nursing is so you don’t have to nurse. They teach instead.
I’m generally opposed to price fixing on general principle, but since lefties love it, let’s start in their playpens. College tuition? I remember writing a $350 check for a full semester’s tuition at a major, well regarded state university. That would be a good baseline; I’d allow for an inflation adjustment, but no more. Tell the colleges to cut administrators and amenities, grievance studies, basket weaving and issues studies, etc. until they get there.
Then we can do the same for public sector pay and pensions.
And welfare benefits.
At a minimum, take the public sector off COLAs.
Many postgraduate nursing programs are offered by university hospitals where nurses employed by the hospital can obtain their post-graduate degree subsidized by the hospital they are employed at. NYU is one such institution.
Great career prospects and tuition as a work benefit avoids debt. There are work tenure requirements before tuition forgiveness and a time of service requirement after the program is completed.
This is simply wrong. Ever heard of an NP? They replace doctors for a great many functions.
The only reason to get an MA in nursing is so you don’t have to nurse. They teach instead.
My wife was a Clinical Nurse Specialist in a NICU. Yes, she taught, particularly in maintaining complex skill sets used infrequently. She also researched and introduced new processes, equipment, and devices, particularly in preserving brain function and reducing IV infections. The payoff to the public has been immense in reduced subsequent costs of public assistance in therapies for damaged children, representing lifelong benefits in the way of productive people.
“professional students will have an annual cap of $50,000 and a lifetime cap of $200,000.”
How will the professional students get by on that paltry amount!!
Just like in American corporations, the managerial class has become little more than a tribe of looters.
I’d simply require the schools to be the loan guarantors.
As the quality of education has failed it’s gotten more and more expensive. There’s a lesson to be learned and a question: where’s the money going?
“Some programs, like postgraduate nursing, are no longer eligible.”
‘That’s a more reliable job than most of the rest on the list.‘
Trump knows nursing education is toward reliable job.
He also knows post grad nursing education is dumb. And it is
“Some programs, like postgraduate nursing, are no longer eligible.”
‘That’s a more reliable job than most of the rest on the list.‘
“Trump knows nursing education is toward reliable job.
He also knows post grad nursing education is dumb. And it is”
I take it back. Nurse Practitioner education is very beneficial and in those cases affordability of tuition is non dependent on the government
See post 7.
Post 7
Yes I was quite mistaken
My wife got her first nursing related job at the age of 16. She has just retired after 54 years of caring for babies. In retirement she's taken a part time job getting developmentally damaged babies the therapies they need. It works, but it ain't cheap, as a good many of them were damaged by parental drug abuse. Simple morality in bearing children would save us an awful lot of money. Look there.
Now it was and is pretty obviously an op to:
Bankrupt middle class families.
A great giveaway in virtually free tuition to POC who of course all graduate as politically active communists heading for NGO or FEDGOV jobs.
Indoctrinate one and all in the whole spectrum: from the evils of Apartheid in my college years to the evil of billionaires, Christians, and ICE in the present day.
Deplete the trades so absolutely that mass immigration of laborers almost starts to look reasonable.
Empowering Ivys and other, wannabe Ivys like UM or UC to become autonomous foci and Temples of communism.
Generate slow, long-term inflation of the currency to debase our economic system over a demi-century timescale.
IT ACCOMPLISHED all of these things.
Heckuvan op, in my mind.
I went to college in the early to mid 90s. Tuition was about $1000 per semester. Now it’s about $7000 at the same school. And that’s just tuition. It cost us about $11,000 per semester to send our daughter to college.
“NICU nurses are special”
They really are. I have known a few in my hospital jobs
My wife tells me that it takes at least two years to make an NICU nurse from a new grad or transfer.
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