Andeo International Homestays
Enhance your Gap experience by including a volunteer or cultural activity. Work at a wildlife sanctuary in Costa Rica, dance Flamenco in Sevilla, study painting and art history in Florence… there are dozens of options! Gap programs are designed for students 18 and older. Countries include Costa Rica, France, Greece, Italy, Japan, Mexico, and Spain.

Aspire by API: Gap Year Abroad Programs
Aspire by API is dedicated to providing comprehensive gap year abroad programs for recent high school graduates. Our language and cultural immersion programs provide students with educational opportunities to learn and develop relevant global skills in an exciting, enriching, safe, and secure setting.

Brown Ledge Gap Year
The Brown Ledge Gap Year program is designed to give you the chance to live on your own and to learn from experience in a supportive and guided way. The skills you will gain—from cooking your meals to holding a job to planning and executing your own ambitious documentary projects—will help you get the most out of college as well as preparing you for life as an active, curious and involved citizen of the world.

Carpe Diem International: Latitudes
Carpe Diem's study abroad programs are designed to safely challenge every student. Through service, travel, community and cultural exchange, our students receive a unique and personal insight into themselves and the cultures they live within while also giving back through service in every country we travel.

Center for Interim Programs
Founded in 1980, The Center for Interim Programs is the first and longest-running independent gap-year counseling organization in the United States. Interim has designed creative gap-year opportunities for more than 5,700 people of all ages and built relationships with organizations worldwide. Rather than going straight to college, students take a year off (in reality, a year very much "on") to immerse themselves in other cultures, explore specific interests, or volunteer to help others.

Dynamy Internship Year
Dynamy is the only experiential education program in America designed to offer young people, aged 17-22, the opportunity to explore their developing interests and strengths outside the classroom before facing the high-stakes, hyper-competitive, and economically decisive commitment to an academic institution or professional apprenticeship.

EF International Language Schools
EF International Schools has been operating for over 40 years with 400 schools and offices around the world.  Offerings include Language Learning Programs, Academic and University Preparation Programs, and Cultural Exchange Programs.

El Casal de 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. Here, you’ll learn more about another culture that you ever thought possible. Perhaps more importantly, you’ll gain an understanding of your own culture and society that will serve you well in college and beyond.

GapSmart
GapSmart! is ready to help your student find the program that best fits their personality, goals, needs, and budget. We work closely with families to ensure that every aspect of the "time on" of a gap year is well spent and thoroughly meets the parents' and student's expectations.

Hebron Academy Postgraduate Year
At Hebron Academy, our mission is to inspire and guide students to reach their highest potential in mind, body and spirit. Our core values are fundamental to the Hebron experience: Hebron Academy is a community of trust, where an individual's word is his or her bond. 

International School for Earth Studies: Gap Semester
ISES is a private, interdisciplinary institution specializing in Earth-based studies located outside of Ottawa, Canada’s Capital. We seek students who wish to pursue interests related to responsible and sustainable environmental stewardship.  The ISES experience encourages students to explore, develop and nurture the seeds of greatness which exist within every individual, with a view to developing tomorrow's environmentally sensitive spokespersons and leaders.

Internship Connection: Gap Year Program
Understanding that students take time off for many reasons, our role is one of advocate and academic advisor. The program is individualized for each student according to career interests and desired work schedule. We meet with the student one time, followed by email and phone contact.

LeapNow
LEAPYEAR is the most unique year of college on the planet! The 9-month program is designed to assist young people in the transition into empowered adulthood. Its a call to action for students that realize education can be more than sitting passively in a classroom and being talked at by "experts".

Map the Gap International
Map the Gap offers Gap Year Programs in Nicaragua, Mexico, & Italy. Each MTGI program is 12 weeks long and is offered two times a year – one beginning in September (July 1 admission deadline) and the other in January or February (November 1 admission deadline). We also have shorter summer versions of each program. String together a combination of programs for your gap year and receive a 10 percent discount on each additional MTGI program.

Real Gap - From 2 weeks to 2 years!
Real Gap, the leader in worldwide travel experiences, offers gap year travel ideas in over 45 countries. We provide short- to long-term travel opportunities year round including: volunteer work, paid work abroad, teaching English, language and skill type programs as well as sports and adventure travel. Wherever in the world you want to go, whatever kind of experience you are looking for, we can you help plan the adventure of a lifetime!

SAGE: INDIA Gap/Volunteer Program
SAGE offers 2 different Gap year experiences, an academic program based at an international boarding school in India or a community service program which is completely volunteer based.

School Year Abroad
Founded in 1964 by Phillips Academy in Andover and now a consortium including top independent schools across the country, School Year Abroad (SYA) is the only secondary-level program which allows students to live with a European or Asian family for an entire academic year while earning U.S. graduation credits and preparing for selective U.S. colleges and universities. Every year each one of our schools in China, France, India, Italy and Spain enrolls approximately 60 students to complete their junior or senior year of high school. Students come from public and private schools across the United States.

School Year Abroad: SYA Vietnam
The program is unique in that its curriculum focuses on economics and environmental sciences, and includes a substantive service-learning component that lets students explore these issues in real-world contexts.

Seamester
Sea|mester offers a range of unique educational adventures where our students live full-time aboard either S/Y Ocean Star or S/Y Argo while spending their entire semester sailing from island to island, country to country or continent to continent in any number of global locations. The shipboard education programs that we offer are highly experiential, yet college-level academics are a strong component of each voyage. In this respect, students further their own knowledge as well as build their college transcripts while sailing aboard with us.

Thinking Beyond Borders
Thinking Beyond Borders is an 8-month intensive Gap Year program designed to educate youth about the economic, political, and cultural realities of our world while empowering them with the tools to create social change. Students study public education in China, sustainable agriculture in India, the AIDS epidemic in South Africa and clean water issues in Ecuador. The program culminates with student presentations to educational and philanthropic organizations to share their learning and spur others to create change.

Travellers Worldwide
Over 300 voluntary projects abroad in 21 countries, including Care and Community projects, Teaching, Sports coaching, Work Experience Internships (Medical, Journalism, Law, Tourism and Adventure Tourism, research programmes and much more), Conservation, Marine, Language Courses and Cultural Courses, Drama, Dance & Music, plus some study abroad courses and projects abroad that are, well, different! All our placements are suitable for gap years, bridge years, grown-up gappers, career breaks, students, internships and retired people.