Travel Program Providers

Use this resource to find an educational travel program
that is right for you!

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An educational travel program can be a challenging and rewarding opportunity and a life changing experience. Many companies and organizations provide programs that can take you across the country or around the world. You may choose to focus on academics at a prep school or on a college campus, learn a language or immerse yourself in a new culture, challenge yourself with an outdoor adventure, develop leadership skills or participate in a service project. Programs may last a week, a month or even a semester.

Farther Foundation does not approve or recommend any specific travel program or service provider. We provide you the list and links below to help you discover the wide variety of opportunities available and to help you research programs and providers. We encourage you to contact several organizations, ask many questions and seriously consider all your options to find a provider and travel program that is right for you.

Academic Programs

Adventure Programs

Arts & Music Programs

College Campus Experience

Cultural Immersion Programs

Domestic Programs

Girls' programs

International Programs

Language Programs

Leadership Training

Math, Science or Engineering

Prep School Experience

Service Programs

 
AAVE

AAVE

"All About Visiting Earth" community consists of teenagers who choose active participation, individual responsibility and who respect and care about one another.
Abroadco

Abroadco

Study abroad with Abroadco in China, France, Germany, Italy, or Spain and enjoy one of the greatest experiences of your life.

Academic Study Associates (ASA Study Abroad)

Join us for an extraordinary summer experience of learning and fun, from Barcelona to Berkeley.

Adventures Cross Country

At Adventures Cross-Country we are proud to create programs that allow teenagers to experience the world in unique and exciting ways.
American Cultural Exchange Service (ACES)

American Cultural Exchange Service (ACES)

American Cultural Exchange Service (ACES) is an American non-profit organization dedicated to promoting global understanding through educational and cultural exchange experiences.
American Farm School - Greek Summer

American Farm School - Greek Summer

An incredible travel adventure exploring Greece's historic sites and natural beauty; and an unforgettable climb of the legendary peak of Mt. Olympus

American Field Service (AFS)

AFS is one of the world’s largest community-based volunteer organizations dedicated to building a more just and peaceful world through international student exchange.
American Institute For Foreign Study (AIFS)

American Institute For Foreign Study (AIFS)

Our programs include college study abroad, au pair placement, camp counselors and staff, gifted education, high school study/travel and insurance services.
American Jewish World Service (AJWS)

American Jewish World Service (AJWS)

AJWS provides unique opportunities to learn, work, serve and travel in Africa, Asia and the Americas

Amigos de las Américas (AMIGOS)

Amigos de las Américas facilitates transformational community service for youth volunteers in health, education, and environmental service projects in Latin America.
Apogee Adventures

Apogee Adventures

Apogee Adventures offers students exciting adventure travel that encourages students to be their best and strive for greatness.
ASSE

ASSE

ASSE offers exchange programs in countries including most of Western Europe, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Mexico and other Latin American countries.
AYUSA Global Youth Exchange

AYUSA Global Youth Exchange

AYUSA provides high school students and host families with exchange programs to build bridges of international friendship.

Barnard College - Pre-College Program

The Office of Pre-College Programs offers learning and leadership opportunities for high school students and provides them with practical tools for navigating the college application process.

Berklee Summer Music Programs

The mission of Berklee College of Music is to educate, train, and develop students to excel in music as a career

Big Brother Backpacking

Through our two-week or full month programs, students will learn how to successfully plan and organize an expedition, overcome foreign situations, and gain confidence in their own capacities.
BikingX

BikingX

From mountain biking, to road touring, to adventure programming, BikingX is committed to running the safest, most exciting tours in the finest regions of the US and abroad.

Blue Lakes Fine Arts Camp

Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp offers fine arts education for all ages.
Boston University Summer Term

Boston University Summer Term

We invite you to experience the perfect mix of academic challenge and summer fun with Boston University's Summer Term High School Programs.
Bowling Green Summer Music Institute

Bowling Green Summer Music Institute

The Summer Music Institute is a program of intensive music camps designed for high school and junior high school students
Brown University Summer Programs

Brown University Summer Programs

More than 250 courses to choose from – everything from the cutting edge of arts and science to career-oriented courses offered in one- to seven-week sessions.

Buck's Rock Performing & Creative Arts Camp

Buck's Rock Performing & Creative Arts Camp. Create. Express. Connect. Explore.
California College for the Arts

California College for the Arts

CCA’s Pre-College Program is an inspiring opportunity for high school students to study art or creative writing in an art-school setting while earning 3 units of college credit.
Carleton College Summer Programs

Carleton College Summer Programs

Carleton offers unique learning opportunities designed to fit the interests of high school students from across the country.

Carnegie Mellon Summer Math & Science Programs

Rigorous summer programs focusing on technical areas of study. You'll build academic and personal skills required for admission to competitive colleges and universities.
Catholic University - School of Architecture

Catholic University - School of Architecture

Students are introduced to all aspects of the study and practice of architecture
Center for Cultural Interchange

Center for Cultural Interchange

The Center for Cultural Interchange is an international education exchange organization dedicated to the promotion of cultural understanding,

Choate Rosemary Hall

Choate Summer Programs will give you a stimulating and challenging learning experience, a safe environment in beautiful New England, unparalleled teachers, and a student body that defines diversity.
College of William & Mary Early American History

College of William & Mary Early American History

The course offers a variety of classes "on site" at the abundant historic places in the Chesapeake region.
Columbia University Summer Program

Columbia University Summer Program

Summer high school programs in New York, Barcelona and the Middle East

Concordia Language Villages

Concordia Language Villages is the premiere language and cultural immersion program in the United States.

Cornell University Summer Program

Live, study, and play on one of the nation’s most beautiful campuses

Council on International Educational Exchange

CIEE provides U.S. high school students and recent high school graduates with an unforgettable international experience.

Cross-Cultural Solutions

Travel and volunteer opportunities abroad

Crump Law Camp at Howard University

The National Bar Association Crump Law Camp provides students entering the ninth through eleventh grades with an introduction to the American judicial system.

Cushing Academy

Summer prep program for high school students

Dauphin Island Sea Lab

Discovery Hall Programs offers a course in marine science to high school students.

Deer Hill Expeditions

Deer Hill offers exciting adventure summer camp programs combining wilderness adventure with the opportunity to work with native peoples on service and conservation projects.

Denison University - Writing Workshop

The Jonathan R. Reynolds Young Writers Workshop is designed to give beginning poets and writers an opportunity to develop their talents and visions.

Drexel University Summer Programs

Drexel University Westphal College offers summer educational opportunities in: Architecture, Fashion Design and Merchandising, Interior Design and the Music Industry.

Duke University Summer Programs

Duke TIP offers challenging educational adventures to motivated, dedicated and talented high school students who possess a desire to learn in a unique setting.
Eaglearts Academy

Eaglearts Academy

A Summer Arts Camp with exceptional programs in Dance, Drama, Visual Art, Music, Video Production and Multi-track for ages 5 to 17
Earthwatch Institute

Earthwatch Institute

Earthwatch knows that teens like you will be leaders of change. We want to put you in the field where you can make a difference - for the health of the planet, and for yourself.

Eleanor Roosevelt Center - Girls Leadership Workshop

The Girls’ Leadership Workshop (GLW) delivers programs each summer to educate, empower, and activate adolescent girls to become the next generation of social justice leaders.

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

Embry-Riddle hosts a variety of summer programs: Computer Engineering Program, Flight Exploration Program, Aerospace Engineering Program, Foreign Language Institute, Great American Aero Derby.

Encore/Coda

Welcoming spirited young musicians of all levels to our unique musical community for a wonderful summer of music, recreation and lasting friendship in southwestern Maine.

George Washington University

High school students are invited to participate in a college experience that is academically engaging and life-changing.

Georgetown University

At Georgetown University’s Summer College, students have the unique opportunity to be “Hoyas” for the summer—to live on campus and attend classes side by side with undergraduate students.

Global Education Action Network

Students create their individualized trips by developing a topic they would like to study, interviewing people on their wish list, and then documenting lifestyles when they arrive in the country.

Global Explorers

This is no ordinary student travel experience. Our interdisciplinary preparatory curriculum prepares students for travel with lessons on leadership, service, science and culture.
Global Leadership Adventures

Global Leadership Adventures

Community Service Programs for Teens in Africa, Asia or Latin America

Global Routes

Global Routes offers teen summer community service programs for high school students in Belize, China, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Ghana, India, Kenya, Mexico, Nepal, Peru, and more.

Global Scholar

A two-week summer seminar that offers rising high school juniors and seniors the chance to immerse themselves in college- level coursework on world affairs at Washington and Lee University in Virginia

Global Works

Global Works provides exceptional summer programs for teens featuring: Community Service, Cultural Exchange, Adventure Travel, and Language Learning.

Global Youth Leadership Institute

GYLI is a non-profit organization dedicated to inspiring and empowering young leaders in schools and communities.

Global Youth Village

Young people gather each summer at our campus in Virginia for an experience in global citizenship filled with cultural exchange, new friendships, fun, and laughter.

Habitat for Humanity

There are so many things you can do to make an impact in your community. Start today to become the leaders of Habitat tomorrow!

Harvard University

Experience college this summer at Harvard. You’ll be challenged—both personally and academically—by taking college courses, living in a dorm, and making friends from around the world.

High Mountain Institute

Located high in the mountains of Colorado, our programs inspire personal and intellectual growth through real experience. The mountains and canyons are our classrooms.

Hillsdale College - Science Program

The science camps seek to promote scientific literacy among high school students.

i-to-i meaningful travel

i-to-i meaningful travel works in partnership with hundreds of locally run partner projects to offer you the chance to volunteer abroad and make a difference on a project that is right for you.

Idyllwild Arts Academy

The Youth Center is designed for students 13–18 years of age who are interested in intensive hands on workshops in the arts while enjoying the social and life building experiences of a summer camp.

Interlochen Arts Camp

Interlochen is the first and foremost camp of its kind, offering visual and performing arts programs for student artists in grades 3-12.

International Doorways

International Doorways programs last from two to six weeks focusing on key elements such as language study, community service, short internships/independent travel study & outdoor adventure.

Intrax

Intrax provides students, young adults, families, and organizations with dynamic exchange opportunities which inspire personal growth, mutual respect, and cultural understanding.

Junior Statesman Program

The Junior Statesmen Summer School offers a challenging, dynamic academic experience for students who have a passion for politics and government.

Kenyon Review Young Writers Workshop

Young Writers is an intensive two-week workshop for intellectually curious, motivated high-school students who value writing.

Kokrobitey Insitute

Kokrobitey Institute offers 2-3 week and semester long residential education programs for High School students in Ghana, Africa

Langubridge

Langubridge summer programs offer high school students an immersion experience with intense language learning and cultural explorations.

Lead Summer Business Institute

Students live on campus and participate in interactive classes, site visits, and one-on-one sessions conducted by the nation's leading business school professors and corporate executives.

Lewis & Clark College - Writers Workshop

Find out more about writing and living on campus while participating in this summer writing program for high school students.

Living Routes

Our summer programs in India, Scotland, Mexico, Brazil, Peru, Senegal, and the US are academic and experiential and are great ways for high school students to build knowledge and experience.

Long Lake Camp for the Arts

Campers choose Long Lake for fantastic summer fun in Drama, Acting, Musical Theater, Fine Arts with 20 studios, all forms of Dance, Music, Film-making, Rock Music and Circus.

Longacre Expeditions

For 29 seasons we have offered world-class, student adventures in the midst of breathtaking settings in the United States and around the world.

MIT residential summer programs

If you'd rather study the human genome or build a robot than master the finer points of archery or memorize this year's summer TV reruns, we've got the programs for you.

Montserrat College of Art

The Montserrat Pre-College Program is for students who have the initiative for rigorous art instruction at the college-level.

Morehouse College Project Identity Institute

Project Identity Summer Institute gives rising academically gifted sophomore and junior African American and other minority male high school students an exciting glimpse into academic college life.

Mount Holyoke SEARCH Program for Girls

A four week summer program for girls currently in 9th, 10th, and 11th grades

National Geographic Student Expeditions

Students completing 9th through 12th grades are eligible to participate in National Geographic Student Expeditions.

National Outdoor Leadership School

NOLS takes people of all ages on wilderness expeditions, teaching technical outdoor skills, leadership, and environmental ethics in some of the world’s wildest and most awe-inspiring classrooms.

National Student Leadership Conference

For over 20 years, the National Student Leadership Conference has invited a select group of outstanding high school students to participate in its fast-paced, high-level, interactive summer sessions.

NETC Educational Travel

Educational Tours That Are Much More Than Just Sightseeing

Northfield Mount Hermon

Northfield Mount Hermon Summer Session offers programs for students wishing to enrich, supplement, or accelerate their school-year education.

Off the chART Travel

Off the Chart is a small personalized company where participants receive individualized attention with small groups on each trip which not only ensures attention but also ensures safety.

OpenRoads

OpenRoads provides summer adventure for high school students that combines literature and the documentary arts (photography and video) in a highly experiential outdoor environment.

Overland

Overland offers more than 40 summer and semester programs spanning the outdoors, service, language, writing and the environment.

Ox-Bow

Ox-Bow offers one and two-week courses for beginning, intermediate, and advanced students in 6 main studio areas—Ceramics, Glass, Painting and Drawing, Papermaking, Print, and Metals.

OxBridge Academic Programs

Oxbridge Academic Programs has been welcoming intellectually adventurous high school and junior high school students to Europe for nearly 25 years.

People to People Student Ambassador

No other educational travel provider offers the combination of experience, heritage, unique access, and a deep commitment to program participant safety as People to People Ambassadors

Perry-Mansfield Performing Arts Camp

The Young Artist Intensive program encourages students to explore their talents in the performing arts.

Phillips Academy Andover

Phillips Academy supports a number of programs that provide educational opportunities to students beyond those who attend the Academy during the regular school year.

Phillips Exeter Academy

Every summer Exeter welcomes to campus some 700 students for five weeks of academic study, athletics, and exploration that carry participants far beyond the classrooms and the playing fields.

Project Exploration

At Project Exploration we believe summer is an opportunity to be a part of science enrichment programs that will broaden horizons and help prepare youth for the future.

Putney School Summer

Putney School offers Teen Summer Arts, Creative Writing and ESOL programs for high school students (ages 14 to 17) on a beautiful hilltop farm in Southern Vermont.

Putney Student Travel

Putney programs are special. They emphasize cultural immersion, learning by doing, having fun, getting off the beaten track, making friends, and giving something of yourself to others.

Rassias Summer Language Programs

Rassias Programs features six exciting opportunities to study and travel abroad for high school age students, two in France, three programs in Spain, and one in China.

Rhode Island School of Design

The RISD Pre-College Program is designed to give 16- to 18-year-old high school students an introduction to the college art school experience.

Rhodes College Summer Writing Institute

The goal of the Institute is to offer a structured, diverse, and inspiring writing community where students share their strengths, explore their potential, and develop their work

Ringling College of Art and Design

PreCollege Perspective is an intensive four-week curriculum where studentsbuild and strengthen their visual art and design skills and broaden their artistic potential.
Rustic Pathways

Rustic Pathways

Travel programs for high school students to Australia, New Zealand, The Fiji Islands, Tanzania, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Burma, Vietnam, China, India, Peru, Costa Rica, Panama, Nicaragua and Mongolia

Sail Caribbean

Sail Caribbean camps offer a variety of Caribbean summer adventures including teen sailing camps, teen scuba camps, summer community service camps, marine biology camps and adventure education.

Savannah College of Art & Design

An adventure in the arts for talented teens

Sea Semester at Woods Hole

We take college students to the deep ocean on a traditional sailing vessel to learn about the sea.

Smith College Science & Engineering

The Smith Summer Science and Engineering Program (SSEP) is a four-week residential program for exceptional young women with strong interests in science, engineering and medicine.

St. Olaf College Music Camp

If you love music and want to spend time with others who love music just as much as you do, make the St. Olaf Music Camp the highlight of your summer.

Stanford Medical Youth Science Program

Each summer, SMYSP immerses ethnically diverse high school students in to the worlds of science, health, medicine, and college.

Student Conservation Association

While learning outdoor skills, you will also work with others to solve tough problems, be part of a team to run your camp -- cooking, cleaning, sharing responsibilities -- and get in physical shape.

Summer at Stanford University

Stanford's High School Summer College provides academic, social and intellectual opportunities that cannot be found in a high school classroom.

Summer Discovery

Summer Discovery offers the world's most popular pre-college enrichment programs for high school students at 10 distinct college campuses.

Summer Institute for the Gifted

SIG provides academically advanced students with an interesting and challenging educational experience.

Summer Study Programs

Attending a SUMMER STUDY program at Penn State University, The University of Colorado at Boulder, The University of Vermont or The Sorbonne in Paris, is A SUMMER LIKE NEVER BEFORE!

The Experiment in International Living

A summer with The Experiment is not a trip or a tour. Each program, in 30 countries world-wide, challenges you to develop a close connection with the people and culture of another country.

The Road Less Traveled

The Road Less Traveled offers Service Learning, Language, Adventure Expeditions, Global Perspectives, and Leadership Training programs for students in some of the most spectacular places on earth.
The School for Field Studies

The School for Field Studies

Environmental field studies abroad: SFS students work together with host communities around the world to learn real environmental problem-solving skills.

The Traveling School

The Traveling School offers specialized high school courses, overseas travel, outdoor adventure, and fun for girls ages 15-18.

Travel for Teens

Travel For Teens offers Hidden Europe, Thailand, Africa, Australia, New Zealand and Fiji to be lived, absorbed, and remembered - with access unavailable to the public and unobtainable as a tourist.

Two Worlds United

Two Worlds United Summer Abroad programs offer the thrill of living in a the country of your selection with a host family and knowing a different culture by personal immersion.

University of Deleware Summer

Summer College is an exclusive opportunity for academically talented high school Sophomores and Juniors to live and learn on one of the most beautiful college campuses on the East Coast.

University of Houston Summer Engineering

The Mentoring and Enrichment Seminar in Engineering Training (MESET) program is a one-week residential engineering introduction program for rising 12th graders.

University of Southern California Summer

High school students can taste college life at USC on the main campus in Los Angeles and on a satellite campus on Catalina Island.

University of the Arts

Our programs foster investigation and exploration of the principles of creativity and focus on the development of each individual student.

US Performing Arts Camps

US Performing Arts Camps are designed as conservatory style programs that encourage students to work collaboratively in achieving high goals.

Visions Service Adventures

VISIONS summer programs for teens and pre-teens blend volunteer service, cultural immersion, and exploration.

Walking Tree Travel

Walking Tree programs incorporate cultural and language immersion, community service, and adventure to enable travelers to see themselves, another culture, and the world in a new and exciting light.

Washington University Summer

As a High School Summer Scholar, you will be part of a small, select group of current sophomores and juniors exploring the realities of college life.

Where There Be Dragons

Dragons programs are authentic, rugged and profound learning adventures that expose the beautiful and complex realities of the countries in which we travel.

Wilderness Ventures

Our adventures provide imaginative and unforgettable journeys into the backcountry in some of the most beautiful outdoor and wilderness areas of national parks and forests in North America and abroad.

Williwaw Adventures

Our expeditions are designed to provide a safe and meaningful wilderness experience that balance challenging adventure and exploration with fun.

Windsor Mountain International

Windsor Mountain programs are an opportunity for youth between the ages of 12 and 18 to see the world. By traveling, students learn about different cultures and grow through the experience.

Yale Exploration Summer Programs

Re-imagine the possibilities for who you want to be.The facilities and faculty at Yale and the town of New Haven are resources to inspire you to pursue more and different and new things this summer.

Youth for Understanding USA

YFU summer programs are traditional homestay programs in 40 countries, where you’ll live with a host family and participate in family activities throughout the summer.