It’s that time of year again—everyone is graduating, and Ava is going to relive her own waltz across the stage by watching her cousins and some of her friends do the same. 

It’s only been a few years since she herself proudly shook hands with the university’s dean and claimed her degree, but now she feels like “the cool aunt” trying to find the most appropriate yet youthful college graduation outfit and planning the ultimate gift for her best friends who have crushed it in their master’s degree programs.

She isn’t one to be competitive, but she wants to do way more than the typical flower bouquet and teddy bear for the grads in her life. She wants to wow them, and that means finding graduation gifts for adults that are just as fun as they are useful.

So, her hunt for the best gifts for college students began where most other modern great adventures do: Google. 

Some of the ideas were impressive but sorry, but we can’t all afford a surprise tropical vacation for the recent grads in our lives. 

Other suggestions were nice, but they lacked the personal touch and dash of originality that would really make Ava’s gift just second-best to the degree her recipients were toting.

It took a while to narrow down her search, and after sorting through dozens of slide shows and listicles, she felt like she’d hit the jackpot when she found SwagMagic. Now, her imagination was running wild. She knew that she’d cracked the code for creating the best graduation gift: custom options, baby.

When you graduate high school, your parents take you out to dinner, and maybe your family throws a party. Some of us are lucky enough to score an ultra-luxe gift, like a new car. But many of us are just happy to enjoy a good meal, eat some cake, and finally never have to worry about missing the first bell again.

When Ava graduated college, her parents put a lot of thought into finding the best university graduation gift ideas for her. 

They ultimately surprised her with a keepsake charm bracelet she was still adding new memories to, the first adornment being a small, silver graduation cap perched atop a stack of textbooks. It had the year of her graduation engraved on it. 

It was the personal touch that really made Ava so happy, and she wanted to give the graduates in her life that same feeling. So, she began looking for university graduation gift ideas in the SwagMagic catalog, and she wasn’t disappointed. 

First off, there were tons of customizable clothing and accessories that were perfect for making a statement about one of the biggest moments in someone’s life. 

A commemorative denim jacket wound up being the perfect choice for her friend Alex, who was a chill guy that just so happened to be wrapping up his third degree. She needed master degree graduation gifts for him that would perfectly capture his relaxed personality and unwavering ambition in one fell swoop.

That’s why she paired the jacket with a Fletcher folio, a smooth vegan leather-bound pad-folio that she could engrave with his name. She could already see him kicking back at a meeting for the multi-million-dollar startup he’d undoubtedly go on to found someday. 

Ava continued to customize gifts like a steel water bottle and a bucket hat for her travel-loving cousin, Ashe, who was going to spend a year post-grad teaching English in Thailand before heading back to start her career search.

Ava was so psyched by all of the gifts she could easily put together that she forwarded SwagMagic to her uncle, who was struggling to find the best sentimental gift for son ideas online. He was thrilled to find out he could create a curated box of swag that even let him customize the box it came in.

It was safe to say that Ava had turned into some kind of college swag fairy godmother after discovering SwagMagic. She was obsessed with being able to put together so many unique ideas and customize each order with different messages and even colors and images. 

She was so enthused by her success that she decided to share the love. Her original quest to be the most epic gift-giver at any graduation had evolved. Now, she was committed to helping all the people in her life find the absolute best gifts for their grads.

It was no surprise that her aunt was in desperate need of her help. She’d searched “sentimental graduation gifts for daughter” and “graduation gifts for her jewelry” on Etsy dozens of times, but she kept coming up short. 

Ava knew her cousin well and decided to select a few options from SwagMagic that would make the keepsake graduation gifts for her.

She forwarded these ideas to her aunt, who was awestruck at some of the designs Ava had come up with. Her favorite was a swag kit featuring custom t-shirts, mugs, and a throw blanket with a collage of photos showing her daughter’s journey from childhood to graduation.

She was so moved that she ordered custom boxes for friends and family to keep as well. 

We all deserve to feel pampered, and what better occasion to go all out than someone’s college graduation?

Ava, who was feeling like quite the gifting goddess, decided to up her ante and put together some luxury graduation gifts for her close friend’s upcoming graduation. She thought about a SnackMagic curation of gourmet cookies and cheeses, along with some self-care items for a home spa gift set.

Then it was time to think about her brother. Luxury graduation gifts for him could be a collection of artistic playing cards, an earl gray rose succulent to nurture in his new apartment, a caramel soy candle, and a silk pillowcase to help him stay well-rested after working hard at his new job.

It turns out there is a whole world of unique graduation gifts for guys and girls that Ava had never discovered. She was amazed at how many options you could find if you were willing to get a little creative.

She’d divided her top picks into two collections. The first was “unique graduation gifts for her.” This included self-care items such as:

• gua sha tool
• collection of silk scrunchies
• brass incense holder.

In “unique graduation gifts for him,” she’d opted for items such as:

• custom pen
• world map notebook
• Legendary Visualization Journal

Ava had reached the top of her proverbial gifting mountain: it was time to choose the ultimate graduation gift for her best friend. She was getting her master’s degree, the last stepping stone toward her dream job.

There are many great small best friend graduation gift ideas, like matching shirts, tote bags, or journals. Then there are sentimental graduation gifts for best friends, which Ava really wanted to get just right.

Her top picks included a white glossy mug with a reference to their most hilarious inside joke, a journal with a collage of their greatest photographed memories across the cover, and a customized tote bag filled with goodies.

As she compiled the ultimate I-love-you-you’re-so-smart gift for her BFF, she also came across a lot of great inexpensive graduation gifts for guys, like a custom t-shirt.

Ava had managed to achieve what she once thought impossible: she thoughtfully curated personalized gifts and awesome swag for all the friends and family of the grads in her life. And she was certain that her gift would avoid being banished to the closet or tucked into a storage bin years down the line.

The only downside? Ava may have gone a little overboard and decided to get herself some custom swag along the way. She hoped she’d be able to pull off all of the custom, well, everything, that now dominated her wardrobe.

Maybe she’d be better off getting a Swag Locker and thinking about it later…