Great College Graduation Gifts

Surprise surprise, jewelry is a popular graduation gift in general, but especially for college grads, because they'll appreciate it more.

Plus there's no temptation to pawn it for money to buy beer money or fast food at the popular campus greasy spoon. I know it sounds harsh, but we're talking about poor college kids here.

If I may, heres a couple of unique gift suggestions for men; Titanium jewelry and celtic cross necklaces.Both tend to be greeted with open arms on graduation day.

Ladies are a little harder, anything that's made of gold, silver or has diamonds all over it should do the trick.

Mens and womens jewelry gift ideas.

Also see Titanium and Celtic jewelry

Let's be honest, although you are specifically looking for a great college graduation gift, it's still like every other holiday or occasion we celebrate.

You want to get wants hot, cool or popular at the time.

This is the case with today generation, and laptops, netbooks and tablets are in with the kids.

And there great for business, playing games, browsing the internet and just about anything else you can think of.

Best selling in: laptops, netbooks and tablets.

Most cell phones have a built in camera these days, but the quality is still not as good as an traditional point and shoot digital camera.

Camcorders are another great gift idea for graduation, or what about a pocket video camera as they are calling them today. The flip models are very popular.

College is over, and it's the beginning of the rest of their life, so don't let him or her miss a moment, or memory.

Bestselling digital cameras and pocket video cameras and camcorders

Ok, I'm not sure where you start, because your son or daughter is going to need everything: furniture for the living room, cookware for the kitchen and a bed set.

And that's just a start.

The dorm life is rough in college, so don't plan on a lot of those items making the trip to their new home.

I don't envy this task, but it needs to be done. And for you graduates, I know blenders, silverware and vacuums are not the sexiest gift, but you'll be thankful later.

Here's the checklist:

Kitchen & Dining, Furniture & Décor, Bedding & Bath, Home Appliances and Vacuums, Cleaning & Storage

Computer software is always a hot gift ideas, no matter the occisian.

Titles like Norton, H&R Block, MicroSoft office, Quicken, PhotoShop and Turbo Tax are always big sellers.

And don't forget PC games.

Software for Mac, PC software and bestselling software gift ideas

Usually I sing the praises of Spanish software because of the large Hispanic population in the United States, but it never hurts to learn a second language like German or Japanese.

In some business fields it may require doing a lot of traveling overseas and or interaction with other cultures.

So it might be very beneficial, or mandatory to learn a second language.

Language is a great gift idea, and it's real easy to put on an iPod, iTouch or other handheld devices for easy learning when on the go.

Rosetta Stone is the bestseller.

Other Spanish language learning software options: Learning Spanish Like Crazy, Synergy Spanish and Rocket Spanish.

See all language software

You know, watches are usually a very popular college graduation gift for men, but women love watches just as much as men do.

Casual and luxury watches for him or her just make someone feel and look good.

And depending on the profession your son or daughter's in, looking good might be the difference in being unemployed or bringing home a weekly paycheck.

Never, and I mean never underestimate the power of a good looking watch.

Watch gift ideas

Every college graduate needs luggage, whether their going to be traveling abroad, business travel or just when he or she takes a weekend trip.

Luggage sets are a good graduation gift because it offers a nice selection of different sized bags and suitcases.

If you do decide to buy a luggage set, Samsonite is widely considered to be one of the best in the business.

If he or she is an outdoorsman, or woman, and would rather carry a larger backpack instead of a suitcase, may I suggest an hiking backpack.

See all luggage and bags and backpacks

So your son or daughter just graduated from college and is about to enter the corporate world where image is a big part of the business.

Leather briefcases, fountain pens and business card holders are considered the standard graduation gifts for business.

Wouldn't it be cool to find out that it was the fountain pen gift set you bought that helped close that multi-million dollar deal?

The standards - Fountain pens, business card holders and briefcases: Mens and womens

Some of the most popular electronic gadgets on the market today are PDAs, smart phones and Blackberries.

Palm PDA's dominate the market, but Dell and HP are in the mix too.

PDAs are an ideal gift for people in business, it's basically a handheld computer that fits in the palm of your hand.

Blackberries are also very popular with teenagers, college students and all the way to seasoned business men and women. The Curve, Storm, Pearl, Torch and Tour models are currently very hot.

Although I said it's ideal for business, men and women in all lines of work or life would love to receive a PDA.

Best selling: PDAs, PDA handheld accessories and Blackberry products

Sorry, when I get to talking about hot electronic gadgets I tend to go overboard, but here's another good graduation gift; the Kindle from Amazon.

This is product is only sold through Amazon, so if you haven't heard about it, that's why.

To really appreciate what this device does you need to check out Amazons Kindle Store page.

In a nut shell, the Kindle allows you access millions of eBooks and newspaper publications, blogs and magazines in seconds.

It holds up to 3500 books, so the days of lugging around a bag of paperback books is over.

The Kindle is the best selling product on Amazon, so that should tell you something.

It's great gift idea for the grad who loves to read.

Kindle accessories and eBooks

Travel is in the top 10 of college graduation gifts. And I'm not just talking about Mexico, Hawaii or the Caribbean.

They have either been there on spring break or maybe that was their high school graduation present.

I'm talking about something different, maybe exotic, and or a unique travel destination that will create memories they'll never forget.

The options are endless, go to one of the popular travel sites like Expedia or Orbitz.

Not to mention a great conversation starter, "YOU'VE BEEN TO *%@# VIETNAM..." Yes I have! Oh, don't forget your passport!

Cruises are cool too.

When doing my research I noticed one glaring electronic computer accessory that didn't seem to be on any list; portable external hard drives.

And the Western Digital Passport model is one of the bestselling.

Most external hard drives come with 500 GB or 1 TB or space for all kinds of media; music, movies, videos and much more.

High school and college students share everything these days, and most thumb drives don't have the capacity to hold a ton of files.

If you do decide to buy an external hard drive for a graduation gift, get a 500 GB or 1 TB like I mentioned above. It might sound like a lot of storage, but it goes very quick.

Portable external hard drives from Western Digital