Announcing Our Top Rated Organizations & Programs of 2019

We’re excited to officially announce the 2019 Top Rated Organizations and Programs on GoAbroad.com, based on real participant reviews collected in 2019.

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Top Rated Organizations of 2019

Top Rated Study Abroad Program Provider

1. CIEE
2. University Studies Abroad Consortium
3. IES Abroad

Top Rated Internship Provider

1. Global Experiences
2. Absolute Internship
3. Meiji Internships

Top Rated Volunteer Program Provider

1. African Impact
2. GVI
3. Love Volunteers

Top Rated TEFL Program Provider

1. International TEFL Academy
2. International TEFL & TESOL Training
3. Premier TEFL

Top Rated Youth Program Provider

1. Travel for Teens
2. Abbey Road Programs
3. The Experiment in International Living

Top Rated Language School

1. Uppsala International Summer Session
2. Instituto Estelar Bilingue
3. Meiji Academy

Top Rated Gap Year Provider

1. Gapforce
2. Wanderlust Exchange
3. Worldaway Learning Tours

Top Rated Adventure Travel Provider

1. Grabatour Travel
2. ActionQuest Summer Adventure Programs
3. Stray New Zealand

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Top Rated Programs of 2019

Top Rated Study Abroad Program

1. American Institute For Foreign Study – Study Abroad in Barcelona, UAB
2. Webster University Athens – Odyssey in Athens Study Abroad Program
3. College Year in Athens – Study Abroad in Greece

Top Rated Internship Program

1. Global Experiences – Intern Abroad in Dublin
2. The Intern Group – International Internships in Tokyo
3. Absolute Internship – Intern in London

Top Rated Volunteer Program

1. African Impact – African Big 5 & Wildlife Conservation Project
2. Frontier – Tenerife Whale & Dolphin Conservation
3. BLUE Missions – Water & Sanitation Projects

Top Rated TEFL Course

1. International TEFL Academy – 170-Hour Online TEFL Class & Lifetime Job Search Guidance
2. TEFL Worldwide Prague – TEFL Course with Lifetime Job Guidance Worldwide
3. The TEFL Academy – Combined Level 5 TEFL Course Abroad

Top Rated Youth Program

1. GVI – Under 18’s Spring Break Costa Rica Community Development
2. Abbey Road Programs – Florence, Italy Summer Program
3. Sol Abroad – High School Study Abroad Program in Mexico

Top Rated Language Program

1. Instituto Estelar Bilingue – Spanish Immersion in Costa Rica
2. Omeida Language Academy – Mandarin Language Program
3. ELFI – Ecole de Langue Francaise et d’Informatique – Intensive French Courses

Top Rated Gap Year Program

1. Outward Bound Costa Rica – Gap Year & Semester Courses: Costa Rica, Panama & Nicaragua
2. Frontier – Gap Year Belize, Marine Conservation & Diving
3. Winterline Global Education – Multi-Country Gap Year Program

Top Rated Adventure Travel Program

1. Stray Asia – Southeast Asia: Fun, Flexible, Adventure Travel Network
2. Grabatour Travel – 13 Day Vietnam Experience
3. Outward Bound Costa Rica – Surf, Scuba, Raft & Hike in Costa Rica & Panama

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Notable Mentions

The competition for our Top Rated List is always high, so we’d still like to recognize the following notable mentions for their large number of new reviews added to GoAbroad.com in 2019 as well as their high quality feedback.

• International Volunteer HQ [IVHQ]
• MAXIMO NIVEL
• World Endeavors
• GoEco – Top Volunteer Organization
• Volunteer Encounter
• The Language House TEFL
• Sol Education Abroad
• Teaching Nomad
• Loop Abroad
• Good Hope Volunteers
• Center for Engaged Learning Abroad (CELA Belize)
• VACorps
• DAKTARI Bush School & Wildlife Orphanage
• help2kids
• ArtBound Initiative

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*Selection Process: Our Annual Top Rated Organizations and Programs are based on both quantity of reviews collected and overall ratings, as well as other measures of quality and participant satisfaction. All reviews counted were published in the 2019 calendar year.