The purpose of this dissertation was to determine whether there is a significant relationship between the major variables of self concept, self actualization and the occupational prestige aspirations of black freshmen students pursuing higher education in the Virgin Islands. Other variables of secondary significance which were explored include age, sex, academic major, parents' education and occupation, income, educational aspirations, and plans to leave the islands. The findings were as follows: (1) no relationship was established between students' self concept and occupational prestige aspirations, (2) no relationship was established between students' self actualization and occupational prestige aspirations, (3) no relationship was established between the students' socioeconomic status and self concept, between socioeconomic status and self actualization or between socioeconomic status and occupational prestige aspirations, (4) through the use of multiple regression statistical analysis the combination of the variables resulted in the following: high self concept and high self acutalization was not associated with high occupation aspirations. A combination of low self concept and low self actualization was not associated with low occupational aspirations, (5) the use of the t-test revealed that there was a significant difference between males and females on the measure of self concept, with males having the higher self concept, and there was no significant difference between males and females on the measure of self actualization. An observation of this study is that in spite of the present economic status of some of the subjects, many of them appear to aspire to occupations which are often more prestigious than the occupations of their parents.