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
Spain
11 gap years you can do here
- Meddeas (Spain private school language assistant)meddeas.comPays, amount variesPays youTeaching abroad
- NALCAP — North American Language and Culture Assistants in SpainSpanish Ministry of Education€800–€1,000/moPays youTeaching abroad
- NALCAP / Auxiliares de Conversación (Spain)educacionfpydeportes.gob.esPays, amount variesPays youTravel & study
- AIFS – Study Abroad Semester (Gap Year Compatible)aifabroad.comFee variesYou payTravel & study
- CIEE – College Study Abroad Semester (Sample: Barcelona)ciee.orgFee variesYou payTravel & study
- CIEE Gap Year Abroad – High School / Teen Programsciee.orgFee variesYou payTravel & study
- EF Gap Year – The Global Gap Yearefgapyear.comFee variesYou payTravel & study
- IES Abroad – Language & Area Studies Semester (Sample: Barcelona)iesabroad.orgFee variesYou payTravel & study
- Le Cordon Bleu – Short Culinary Coursescordonbleu.eduFee variesYou payTrades
- Middlebury Language Schools – Immersion Intensivesmiddlebury.eduFee variesYou payTravel & study
- Verto Education – Freshman Year Abroadeathealthy365.comFee variesYou payTravel & study
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