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This brief examines evidence-based and equity-focused degree reclamation strategies that support potential college degree completers—students who have accumulated roughly two or more academic years’ worth of credit and have stopped out of an institution or transferred from a two-year to a four-year institution before receiving a degree—in attaining degrees that are meaningful to their education and career goals. The brief provides a rationale for degree reclamation strategies and provides institutional, state, and federal policy recommendations to support degree reclamation.