Foreign Medical School Accountability Fairness Act of 2026

The Foreign Medical School Accountability Fairness Act of 2026 would amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require foreign graduate medical schools outside the U.S. and Canada to meet the same eligibility standards as domestic schools to participate in federal Title IV student loan programs. It targets for-profit Caribbean medical schools that have historically received most federal funding despite being exempt from key requirements, aiming to increase accountability and protect students and taxpayer dollars. The bill repeals existing grandfather provisions that allowed certain schools to bypass eligibility rules and sets new benchmarks, including that at least 60% of enrolled students…

AI summary · The lawmakers haven’t published an official summary of this bill yet, so 52 wrote this one from the bill’s text.