Gap Year Options

  • AFS Intercultural Programs, Inc.
    Provides intercultural learning opportunities abroad with the aim of promoting a more just and peaceful world.
  • Americorps (Corporation for National Service)
    In return for serving the United States in humanitarian, educational, or environmental endeavors, students get awards they can use for paying off college loans, or scholarships while they are in college.
  • Carpe Diem
    Inspiring growth and transformation through experiential education, community and intercultural exchange.
  • City Year
    Putting idealism to work — City Year, an AmeriCorps program, is a national service organization which unites young adults, ages 17 to 24, from diverse racial, cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds for a demanding year of full-time community service, leadership development, and civic engagement.
  • Dynamy Internship Year
    Dynamy is a one-year program for kids graduating from high school and looking for a way to find direction before going to college.
  • El Casal Barcelona
    An intensive program specifically designed for gap year students, El Casal combines travel, Spanish language study, cultural activities, homestay and involvement in the local community.
  • Go Abroad
    Directory guide for study abroad, language schools, internships, and international volunteer positions. Resources and information available.
  • Institute for Village Studies
    Non-profit educational organization providing learning experiences through service and exploration in developing nations.
  • National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS)
    NOLS is a wilderness educational school offering expedition length courses in eight countries. The site includes course information, minimum impact techniques, wilderness first aid, and research reports.
  • School for Field Studies, Environmental Field Studies Abroad
    Learn about environmental field studies programs in Australia, Canada, Kenya, Costa Rica, Mexico and the British West Indies.
  • Sea-mester Programs
    80-day, credit-bearing semester programs focusing on college level academics, seamanship and personal growth for high school graduates and college students.
  • StudyAbroad.com
    Since 1995 Studyabroad.com has provided the most comprehensive search and up-to-date online listings of Language and Study Abroad programs. This site includes thousands of listings for hundreds of programs world-wide, as well as financial aid information and the study abroad handbook.
  • The Center for Interim Programs
    Interim is a service that enables people to pursue structured alternatives to formal education or work by matching clients’ interests with over 5,000 internships, volunteer positions, apprenticeships, cultural studies programs, etc., worldwide, to create “time off” that can give a new direction, sharpen hazy career goals, rejuvenate those on the verge of burnout and provide a much-needed break to students between high school and college or those already in college.
  • The Experiment in International Living
    An international nonprofit organization promoting intercultural learning through homestays, educational group travel, study abroad, language training au pair, and other cultural immersion programs.
  • Time Out Associates
    A service that works with individual clients to search for options for summers, semesters and for full year experiences. Clients include high school students seeking alternatives, high school graduates, college students, and graduates looking for a break before entering the work force.
  • Travel Tree
    Study/volunteer abroad with Travel Tree – thousands of study abroad programs, jobs, internships, volunteer projects.
  • World Learning – Global Education, Study Abroad, International Development, and Teacher Education
    Provides details of the nonprofit’s overseas educational training programs. Includes job opportunities and contact information.
  • Youth for Understanding International Exchange
    A non-profit educational organization which offers opportunities for young people around the world to spend a summer, semester or year with a host family in another culture.