EF Educational Tours was founded in 1965 and is a common choice for teachers to work with for educational trips abroad. EF has programs in 114 countries and teachers can choose a tour that aligns with their academic curriculum in these countries. This can include programs on art history, French or Spanish language and culture, and nature and ecosystem oriented tours. These programs can take place in one country or several countries. EF also has service-learning programs where students can travel abroad to do volunteer work. 

The Experiment is another very popular program for international education among American youth. It is administered by World Learning and was founded in 1932. The Experiment offers thirty high school summer abroad programs in twenty-six countries with programming on language and culture, peacebuilding, ecology, marine biology, and other political or social justice oriented themes. Students apply to the individual program that they are interested in and attend the program with students from schools all over the country. Typically, these programs last for approximately one month during the summer. The Experiment also offers low-income students scholarship opportunities to participate in these programs to make them more accessible. 

The Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE) is an international education program that has both university and high school study abroad programs. CIEE was founded in 1947 and has programs in over forty countries. At the high school level, they have four-week long summer programs focused on arts, culture, language, sustainability, along with other topics. CIEE also offers full semester long programming for high school students where students can enroll in a high school abroad for one trimester, one semester, or two semesters for a full academic year. Lastly, CIEE offers gap year programming abroad where students can live abroad before starting their university education. 

Envoys is a student travel program that works with predominantly private upper-class high schools. Through this program, teachers decide what type of curriculum and travel experience either abroad or domestically that they would like the students to have and Envoys creates the program customized for the school, teachers, and students. Envoys programs typically last between five and ten days and can take place during the school year or during the summer. These programs have topics such as civil rights and Black liberation, sustainability and ecology, and immigration. 

Global Kids is an educational non-profit based in New York City and Washington D.C. The organization facilitates global education and leadership development programs for students in low-income high schools. While much of the programming takes place in their partner schools, Global Kids also has facilitated international travel experiences with students for conferences and events to Costa Rica, Morocco, South Africa, Japan, Peru, and several other countries.

One World Now is an international education non-profit based in Seattle, Washington. The organization hosts after-school programming for cultural and language learning, particularly for languages that the United States government deem as “high-need” languages such as Korean, Arabic, and Chinese. They also host short-term travel programs for students to Morocco, South Korea, Tunisia, Russia, and China. One World Now works only with students in the Seattle Public School system and works to promote language and international education to low-income students.