Perhaps of interest to those following the impact of the new loan legislation. Last week, Inside Higher Ed described new litigation brought by 25 states (you can find the lawsuit’s complaint at this link). The lawsuit argues that the Trump administration issued a final rule that unlawfully narrowed the pre-existing federal definition of a professional degree (“The rule imposes new restrictions not enacted by Congress, leaving many health care and other professional degree programs unable to qualify for the higher loan limits.”). From the Insider Higher Ed article:

Half the states in the country and Washington, D.C., sued the Education Department Tuesday, asking a judge to vacate the agency’s decision to subject students in all but a few graduate programs to the most stringent new federal loan limits.

At stake is students’ access to their desired careers, universities’ ability to charge them what they deem a degree should cost and the nation’s supply of health-care workers, among other matters.

Read more here: Ryan Quinn, 25 States Sue Ed Department Over Grad Student Loan Limits, Inside Higher Ed, May 19, 2026; see also Cory Turner, States Sue over New Student Loan Limits on Certain Nursing and Healthcare Degrees, NPR News, May 19, 2026.