A city that offers great job opportunities, a decent real-estate market, and a good education system for your future kids – does it exist?

Not likely. It is rather as Tracy Lynn Van Es, US sales and research manager with Universum Communications says, "Priorities revolve around finding a location that correlates with the life they want to live after graduation."

Approximately 40 percent of all minority students surveyed in 2004 say their first choice city to work and live in is New York City. African-American students favor Atlanta, which suggests that the trend of African-Americans increasingly relocating to the South is still going strong.

Greater percentages of the Asian Americans highlight San Francisco, while Hispanic Americans feel a strong connection to Miami, the nexus to Latin America.

The globalization of the economy inspires greater numbers of US students to consider pursuing international careers. Minority students are no different and more than 30 percent of Asian American and Hispanic undergraduate students say they want to work abroad. Surprisingly, few African-American students can see themselves accepting a job outside America. Only 14 percent told Universum they were interested in a job based in another country.

"Approximately 40 percent of all minority students surveyed in 2004 say their first choice city to work and live in is New York City."