Featured Programs

Proven programs. Ready to make your own.

Explore some of our most successful program designs for middle schools, high schools, colleges, and universities.

Programs range from short domestic experiences to 21+ day international programs. Each offers a proven starting point, with flexibility to customize around your students, goals, schedule, and budget. Pricing varies by group size, length, destination, and inclusions.


Start With Your Students

What Kind of Program Are you planning?

Spark curiosity. Expand perspectives.

Cultural immersion, history, adventure, hands-on learning, and shared experiences designed for younger students.

Destinations: Japan • Costa Rica • UK • Italy • Peru • Washington, DC • New York City

Go deeper. Experience more.

Cultural immersion, leadership, service, hands-on learning, and reflection help students become confident, independent travelers and people.

Destinations: Japan • Costa Rica • Peru • Italy • UK • Washington, DC • New York City • New Orleans

Take learning beyond the classroom.

Connect academic disciplines with professional engagement, community partnerships, and real-world learning.

Topics: Health • Business • Engineering • Sustainability • Education • Arts & Media • Social Sciences • Sport


Find a Program

Explore popular Featured Programs

Browse by student level, destination, or academic interest. Every program can be customized.

Middle School

Costa Rica | 8–9 Days

Make Costa Rica an outdoor classroom through rainforest exploration, wildlife encounters, sustainable agriculture, culture, and hands-on conservation.

Middle School

Italy | 7–8 Days

Bring ancient history to life through archaeological sites, Sicilian food traditions, local farms, Mount Etna, and coastal exploration.

Middle School • Large Group Friendly

United States | 5 Days

Explore history and leadership through the U.S. Capitol, Smithsonian museums, interactive civic experiences, service, and collaborative challenges.

High School

Costa Rica | 8–10 Days

Discover rainforest ecosystems, sustainable communities, conservation, service, and adventure in one of the world’s most biodiverse countries.

High School

Italy | 8–10 Days

Uncover how migration, cultural exchange, agriculture, and ancient civilizations have shaped Sicily and its communities today.

High School

United States | 6–8 Days

Trace the connections between music, race, resilience, culture, and community through the stories and sounds of New Orleans.

College & University

Costa Rica | 9–12 Days

Study biodiversity, conservation strategies, and sustainable development through field-based learning and immersion in tropical ecosystems.

College & University

Costa Rica | 9–10 Days

Engage with healthcare professionals and organizations while examining culturally responsive care, healthcare systems, clinical practice, and community wellbeing.

College & University

Italy | 9–12 Days

Experience Italy as your living classroom for art, architecture, cultural heritage, and creative expression across historic and contemporary environments.

College & University

Sardinia, Italy | 9–10 Days

See how food, movement, healthcare, aging, and social connection shape well-being in Sardinia, comparing Italian and U.S. approaches to health.

College & University

Peru | 9–12 Days

Compare healthcare systems and examine how geography, culture, infrastructure, and public policy shape health and access to care.

Japan - Anime, Media and Visual Cultur
Japan - Anime, Media and Visual Cultur

College & University

Japan | 8–10 Days

Understand Japan’s modern creative identity through immersion in a world of anime, manga, film, media, performance, and visual culture


Make It Yours

A Starting Point, Not a Fixed Program

Featured Programs give you a proven starting point without limiting what’s possible. Choose a program that fits your goals, then tailor it around your students, academic priorities, and calendar.

LENGTH

Build the program around your academic calendar, from short domestic experiences to multi-week international programs.

LEARNING FOCUS

Customize academic themes, learning outcomes, service, reflection, professional engagement, and community partnerships.

EXPERIENCES

Add, remove, or adjust site visits, workshops, guest speakers, cultural experiences, service projects, and excursions.

GROUP & BUDGET

Tailor program design and pricing to your group size, accommodations, transportation, meals, and other inclusions.

PROGRAM SUPPORT

Select the level of EdOdyssey staffing, logistics, safety, recruitment, and on-the-ground support that fits your needs.

Featured means “proven,” not “fixed.”


Why Start Here?

get to a great program Faster

Start with itineraries, partners, activities, and program structures that have already been tested in the field.

Spend less time building logistics from scratch and more time refining what students will experience and learn.

Adapt the academics, activities, length, learning outcomes, and support to your institution’s needs.


See a Program that sparks an idea?

You Don’t Need to Know Every Detail Yet

Start with a featured program that’s close to what you have in mind, then tell us what you’d like to keep, change, or build on.

We’ll help shape it around your students, goals, and priorities.

Have something completely different in mind?