"Congress created the Do No Harm test when it passed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act last summer. The test, which hasn't yet taken effect, will generally require programs to show their graduates earn more on average than high school diploma earners (just over $35,000 in Indiana), or else students in those programs will no longer be able to receive federal student loans."
"Indiana's Senate Bill 199 will make failing that test even more punitive in the Hoosier State. It adopts the federal test into state law and says programs that fail it must close entirely-unless the state Commission for Higher Education, a group of gubernatorial appointees, grants an exemption."
Indiana's governor signed Senate Bill 199 into law, implementing stricter consequences for academic programs that fail the federal Do No Harm earnings test. This test, created through Congress's One Big Beautiful Bill Act, requires programs to demonstrate graduates earn more than high school diploma earners (over $35,000 in Indiana) or lose federal student loan eligibility. Graduate and professional programs must exceed bachelor's degree earnings. Indiana's law goes further by mandating complete program closure for failures, with exemptions possible only through the state Commission for Higher Education, composed of gubernatorial appointees. The GOP-controlled legislature passed the measure, which the Republican governor signed into law.
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