Authentic Connection. Real Impact.

Fuel your future with high school intercultural exchange.

Gain a deeper understanding of the world as you launch your unforgettable educational experiment. Through our ABROAD and VIRTUAL programs, you'll experience homestays with trusted families, immerse yourself in new cultures, and learn alongside diverse groups of people, all while fueling your purpose-driven passions along the way.

DISCOVER THE DIFFERENCE

The Experiment is the most respected provider of international exchanges for high school students. For 90 years, we have empowered young people to step off the beaten path, experience the world as a classroom, and develop the skills they need to solve the challenges of tomorrow.

LEADING ON HEALTH, SAFETY & RISK MANAGEMENT

Our long history of providing intercultural exchange programs comes with decades of experience ensuring safe learning environments abroad. We continually strive to identify, mitigate, and manage risk while adhering to health and safety guidelines in global and local contexts.

FUELING YOUR PURPOSE-DRIVEN PASSIONS

Earn college credit, intern, and build the technical and interpersonal skills that set you apart. Colleges and future employers look for leadership, intercultural communication, problem-solving, and critical thinking – all skills that you will build through Experiment programs and internships.

CELEBRATING DIVERSITY, EQUITY & INCLUSION

Diverse identities and experiences are essential to intercultural exchange. We are committed to recruiting and supporting participants of the broadest socioeconomic, racial, ethnic, and geographic background of any high school exchange program in the world.

“I feel like I truly experienced what it means to be a part of something. The word ‘community’ felt so genuine and true during my homestay. I hope that I will be able to cultivate these types of relationships, the ones where you know that you can go into any house and find a home, back where I live.”

Casey, Experimenter, South Africa

SUMMER 2025

Thanks for your interest in The Experiment Abroad or The Experiment Digital.

Apply online to our summer 2025 programs. Programs fill fast early in the new year, so apply now! (Enrollment requests after February 15th are not guaranteed.)

Need-based partial scholarships are available to students who apply for admissions and a need-based scholarship by December 15. Read more.

The competitive application to The Leadership Institute programs in Costa Rica and Spain are due on January 15th.

Read our FAQs to learn more about our enrollment process and timeline, as well as our 360-degree approach to risk management.

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