Where you can do a gap year
55 countries with gap years an American can actually do. Click one to see them all.
12–45–910+programsNot open to Americans
Germany
6 gap years you can do here
- Au Pair in Germany (outbound US citizen)pack-lightly.comPays, amount variesPays youTeaching abroad
- Bruderhof Communitiesbruderhof.comRoughly breaks evenBreaks evenTravel & study
- Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange for Young Professionals (CBYX)Cultural Vistas, funded by the U.S. Department of State and the German BundestagRoughly breaks evenBreaks evenTravel & study
- IJGD (Germany) / UNA Exchange (UK) — Workcamp coalitionsijgd.deFee variesYou payService
- Middlebury Language Schools – Immersion Intensivesmiddlebury.eduFee variesYou payTravel & study
- WWOOF Italy / France / Germanyhelp.wwoof.netFee variesYou payTravel & study
Not open to Americans
These run here, but the US has no agreement that lets American citizens apply.
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