High School Study Abroad in San Jose, Costa Rica

CIEE High School Abroad Program in Costa Rica

Enhance your high school years with a semester or academic year abroad! Studying in Costa Rica offers students the opportunity to grow and change, while embracing the lifestyle of a foreign culture. Costa Rica's unique location and tropical setting make it nature's live theater, and its wild array of exotic flora and fauna make it one the most bio-diverse places on earth. It has a reputation as on... Learn More

Global Leadership Adventures: Teen Volunteer Abroad Trips

Global Leadership Adventures offers life-changing community service trips to Africa, Asia and Latin America. Programs are only for high schools students and focus on volunteering and learning about grassroots social movements. On the weekends, students engage in exciting excursions to places of cultural or historical significance. Click on the link to request a free catalog. Programs in 11 dest... Learn More

SPI Study Abroad High School Programs for College Credit

This course allows students to learn Spanish while exploring the captivating eco-systems of the country. Students arrive into the San Jose Airport and travel to Heredia (a suburb of San Jose) for first day orientation, before heading to the town of Monteverde for the first week of the program. Located in the heart of the Costa Rican rainforest, Monteverde hosts the world famous Cloud Forest Prese... Learn More

Central America : Indigenous Community, Culture, and Spanish

In Guatemala and Nicaragua, study Spanish, live with home stay families, and teach at local community schools with your new language skills. Then volunteer at a sustainable arts center and live in an eco-lodge as you learn about permaculture and alternative building techniques, enriching your experience as you embrace local cuisine, folklore, and indigenous culture. As you learn first-hand about... Learn More

Summer & Semester Courses in Costa Rica

Costa Rica Outward Bound is an experiential education program designed to inspire and develop leadership, compassion, responsibility, respect for the environment and commitment to serve through adventure-based wilderness experiences in Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Panama. Imagine Central America as both your classroom and playground! Semester courses take students on adventures through Costa Rica,... Learn More

International Volunteering for Under 18's

Are you looking for an exciting travel experience that will help get you ahead at university? Volunteer travel experiences will help you develop a whole bunch of transferable skills and they will give you an amazing volunteer travel experience to boot! We know how difficult it can be to find overseas volunteering programs that will accept teenagers so we've designed a whole range specifically f... Learn More

Volunteer In Costa Rica - United Planet - 1-52 weeks

United Planet's Costa Rica program is multifaceted and growing and there are many opportunities for volunteers to make a critical difference. Volunteers can play an important role in contributing to the local community and in building bonds of understanding. Many opportunities are offered, both short and long-term on projects supporting the environment and focusing on community development, such a... Learn More

Global Service and Language Program

You will spend two weeks on a building project with Habitat for Humanity where you will live alongside volunteers from all over the world. Housing and meals will be provided in a small guest house. The third week you will embark on an ecotour visiting sights such as the Arenal Volcano, from which you will ride horseback up to lovely waterfalls. You will spend two days at Tortuguero National Park w... Learn More

Summer Teen Homestay Program in San Jose, Costa Rica

Costa Rica is a truly wonderful location to immerse yourself in the Spanish language and Central American culture. The surroundings are breathtakingly beautiful, the people are incredibly friendly and life is easy! Our Costa Rica summer program takes place on the campus of a well respected high school in the peaceful community of Heredia, on the outskirts of the capital city of San Jose. But ... Learn More