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Key Points ・Starting July 1, 2026, the federal Grad PLUS program closes to new borrowers, and graduate borrowing is capped at ...

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 ...

Most of the colleges with the largest graduate programs in the country don’t have clear plans for how they’ll deal with new loan caps, set to kick in next July. And if they do, they aren’t taking ...

Among the many major changes to federal financial aid policy in Congress’s budget reconciliation bill, one could have an underreported but outsize effect on both college finances and educational ...

・The Big Beautiful Bill eliminates Grad PLUS loans beginning in the 2026-27 school year. ・Graduate students would face stricter borrowing caps and rely on unsubsidized federal loans or private loans. ...