People who want to start a variety of healthcare careers may find it challenging to pursue their education due to a recent federal change. Several positions were reclassified from a “professional degree” to a “graduate degree” under President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act.” Students in “professional” programs can borrow up to $50,000 a year, and $200,000 in total. All other graduate programs can borrow less than half of that figure, $20,500 per year and $100,000 overall. The Department of Education recognizes the following programs as professional: - Pharmacy (Pharm.D.) - Dentistry (D.D.S. or D.M.D.) - Clinical Psychology (Psy.D. or Ph.D.) - Veterinary Medicine (D.V.M.) - Chiropractic (D.C. or D.C.M.) - Law (L.L.B. or J.D.) - Medicine (M.D.) - Optometry (O.D.) - Osteopathic Medicine (D.O.) - Podiatry (D.P.M., D.P., or Pod.D.) - Theology (M.Div., or M.H.L.) All the fields that were removed were majority female, according to the data, with percentages varying from 65% (p...