The Best Gifts for College Students They'll Actually Use

Do you have a college student on your shopping list this year?

If you’re likely looking for gifts that are useful and fun too!

The ultimate gift guide for college students

Check out all of the best gift ideas for college students and find the perfect gift for your loved one.

Freshman Survival Guide Book

In the four years since its initial publication, THE FRESHMAN SURVIVAL GUIDE has helped thousands of first-year students make a successful transition to college life. However, much has changed on campuses.

The explosion of technology, the ubiquity of social media, and culture changes have all added new layers of complexity to the leap from high school to college. THE FRESHMAN SURVIVAL GUIDE’s updated edition features new research and advice on issues such as mental health, sexual assault, and finding balance.

It also features expanded sections on dating, money management, and an increased focus on how the over 1.5 million incoming freshmen can prepare themselves for the biggest change they’ve encountered in their lives: heading off to college.

Mega Snacks Variety Pack Care Package

The Mega Snacks Variety Care Package Gift Box from Mr. Snackbox contains a variety of 50 better-branded individually wrapped snacks. Sweet, salty, crunchy, chewy – it contains a mixture sure to please anyone.

Savvy Infusion Water Bottle

Savvy Infusion bottles are reusable and provide a healthy and inexpensive alternative to soda, juice & sports drinks. Infusing water with natural flavors is a fun and energizing way to hydrate, suppress appetite, burn fat, & enjoy radiant skin. You’ll be inspired to drink more water…the easiest way to stay slim, healthy, and energized.

Apollo Tools General Repair Tool Set

The Apollo Precision Tools 39-piece pink tool set comes with attractive pink accents and helps fund breast cancer awareness initiatives. It is heat-treated and chrome plated to resist corrosion. It is securely housed in a handy blow-molded case. All the tools meet or exceed ANSI critical standards. It contains the tools needed for most small repairs around the house.

Infina USB Digital Voice Recorder

This mini recorder adopts a professional recording chip which allows you to enjoy a clear recorded voice. One button to record and save makes it super user-friendly. Let you store up to 72hours recording files or 5000 songs. Voice recorder is Mac compatible, so you can easily transfer your audio files over onto your PC or Mac and playback freely.

Chill Sack Bean Bag Chair

Add some fun to your basement hangout, dorm room, or bedroom with this super comfy bean bag chair! The 5 x 5 foot Chill Sack is ideal for kids, teenagers, college students, and stressed-out adults. Use it while watching your favorite movies, tv shows, or while playing your favorite game.

Covered in soft microfiber material, the Chill Sack offers ultimate comfort and unmatched functionality. The removable cover can be machine washed and is resistant to stains, and discoloration so your new favorite lounger always looks and feels brand new.

Every Chill Sack has double stitched seams for extra strength and extended use.

Dorm Essentials Survival Kit

Includes Mini Oreos, headphones, highlighters, note pad, large Twix, toothpaste, toothbrush, shampoo and conditioner, nutrigrain, purrell hand sanitizer, pen with army knife, and assorted mini candies. Sure to put a smile on your loved one’s face. Include a note with your order to personalize your gift!

Tzowla Laptop Backpack

One Luggage belt design on the back of the bag helps to free your hand and back, will make your traveling and business trip more convenient. USB interface with built-in cable design, a great convenience for charging your electronic devices via connecting your own power bank. And the headphone interface frees your hands when enjoying audios, music, etc.

Bose Soundlink Headphones

Freedom. Convenience. The big advantages of wireless headphones. But Bose gives you a better wireless experience all around. Deep, immersive sound at any volume. Clearer calls at both ends of the communication.

Seamless switching between two connected Bluetooth devices, so you’ll never miss a call or that movie you’re watching. Once you hear them, we think you’ll agree they’re the best-sounding wireless headphones you’ll find anywhere.

Seneo Wireless Charging Station

As the leader of the wireless charger industry, Seneo focuses on the innovation for design and technology to provide the best wireless charging experience to customers from all over the world. Seneo has sold more than 2,000,000 wireless chargers and always at ready to provide support for our customers to gain satisfied smiles.

Amazon Gift Card

Amazon.com Gift Cards are the perfect way to give them exactly what they’re hoping for – even if you don’t know what it is. Amazon.com Gift Cards are redeemable for millions of items across Amazon.com. Item delivered is a single physical Amazon.com Gift Card nested inside a tin Gift Box.

Bath Bomb Gift Set

This beauty foot peel mask can help effectively to soften the aged cuticle, remove the dry dead skin and repair the cracked heels. Say “goodbye” to the embarrassing situations caused. Help your foot soft like baby feet.

Just cleanse and wipe your feet, take out one pair of foot peel mask and cut open the package, put your feet in and seal it, then relax for an hour while the Soft Touch foot mask peel kit goes to work on your foot. It’s better to do a foot soak after 48 hours. About 20 minutes each day.

Keurig K15 Coffee Maker

When space and portability are important, choose the Keurig K15, Coffee Maker. It brews 6 oz., 8 oz., and 10 oz. in under two minutes. The Keurig K15 Coffee Maker is a compact personal coffee maker with 6, 8, and 10 oz. K-Cup pod brew sizes.

Portable and great for small spaces, the Keurig K15 makes single-cup brewing fast, convenient and simple. To operate, simply add fresh water into the single-use reservoir, choose your favorite K-Cup pod, brew, and enjoy!

Not only is David’s Cookie of the Month Club a unique gift idea for top corporate clients or kids away at school but also you can get a subscription for the home and treat your family and yourself to a monthly delivery of great gourmet cookies for months.

Our online cookie club is so amazing, not just because of all the delicious food, but because the shipping is free and you can save over 25% off the retail price, delivered. With a 12-month membership of the two-pound size, you can treat your friends to fresh-baked gifts, and treat yourself to over $125 in savings!

Cookies ship out the first non-holiday Tuesday or Wednesday of the month. A gift message is included with the first shipment of cookies.

Apple iPad 2

Size and WeightHeight: 9.50 inches (241.2 mm) Width: 7.31 inches (185.7 mm) Depth: 0.34 inch (8.8 mm) Weight: 1.33 pounds (601 g) Storage: 16GB Wireless and Cellular Wi-Fi (802.11a/b/g/n) Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR technology Display9.7-inch (diagonal) LED-backlit glossy widescreen Multi-Touch display with IPS technology1024-by-768-pixel resolution at 132 pixels per inch (ppi).

Fingerprint-resistant oleophobic coating support for display of multiple languages and characters simultaneously chip: 1GHz dual-core Apple A5 custom-designed, high-performance, low-power system-on-a-chip cameras, photos, and video recording.

Vera Gloria Canvas Messenger Bag

This small messenger bag is made of premium thick cotton canvas with cowhide leather trims, fine stitching technology. Main compartment with two multi-function pockets and one interior zipper pocket, Approx. 9.8″L x 11.8″H x 2.7″ W, fit for iPad, netbook, tablet and 12” laptop/notebook.

George Foreman Grill System

Bring the complete cooking center to your kitchen with the George Foreman GRP4800R Evolve Grill. The 4-in-1 capabilities and simple digital controls will change the way you prepare food.

Use the durable ceramic grill plates for your traditional grilling needs with steak, chicken, fish, and vegetables. Then swap them out for the deep dish bake pan or the muffin insert that can be used for a variety of tasks. Each plate is completely removable and dishwasher-safe.

101 Things to Do with Ramen Noodles Book

101 Things To Do With Ramen Noodles is about the best book a college student or long-distance backpacker could ever have. Expand your ramen repertoire with an amazingly inventive and unique addition to the backpacking food prep category, 101 Things to do with Ramen Noodles.

Ramen is fast, easy, and filling, but what can be done to spruce it up and give it a whole new life? Use your imagination or just buy this book. This book will take you to gastronomic heights never before achieved or imagined and the best thing is that all the recipes are cheap and easy.

Fandango Gift Card

Fandango is Your Ticket to the Movies. Use Fandango gift cards to purchase tickets in advance to theaters including Regal, AMC, Cinemark, Marcus Theaters, and many others. Fandango, the nation’s leading moviegoer destination, sells tickets to more than 29,000 screens nationwide.

Fandango entertains and informs consumers with reviews, commentary, celebrity interviews and trailers, and offers the ability to quickly select a film, plan where and when to see it, and conveniently buy tickets in advance.

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