Expertly Designed,
Fully Customized
Study Abroad Programs
in Ecuador

Explore how two biodiversity hotspots balance conservation and development. Learn how sustainable tourism supports ecology, local economies, and culture in the Chocó Andino and Galápagos, where strict rules and community action protect fragile ecosystems.

🔍 Includes visits to national parks, community ecotourism projects, and biodiversity research centers.

Explore Ecuador’s cloud forests in the Andes and Chocó, where altitude, mist, and terrain create rich biodiversity and high endemism. Learn how communities and researchers work to protect these vital ecosystems amid environmental threats.

🔍 Includes visits to cloud forest reserves, bird and orchid sites, community conservation projects, and research centers.

Focus on local food systems, traditional agriculture, agroecology, and Indigenous food justice practices in the highlands and Amazon.

🔍 Includes site visits to local cooperatives operating at various points along the food system, seed banks and sustainable food projects, offering valuable insights into localized production, distribution, and community-based alternatives.

Discover how Ecuador is reshaping its cacao industry—from Amazon cultivation to high-end chocolate in Quito. This program connects agroecology, gastronomy, and development.

🔍 Includes visits to rural farmers, indigenous communities, and urban chocolatiers. See how cacao drives innovation, equity, and cultural change locally and globally.

Enhance your Spanish through a dynamic, full-immersion journey across Ecuador’s regions—Quito, Cuenca, the Amazon, and the Galápagos. Learn the language in real-life settings while engaging with diverse communities.

🔍 Includes site visits to museums, homestays, local markets, and natural reserves for contextualized learning.

Explore how Ecuador’s cities are shaped by power, people, and place. This program uses a multidisciplinary approach—urban planning, social justice, sustainability, and governance—to examine how cities like Quito, Cuenca, and Puerto Ayora address migration, housing, infrastructure, and inequality.

🔍 Through site visits, interviews, and workshops with community leaders and urban planners, students will experience how Latin American cities reimagine space, identity, and inclusion. From historic neighborhoods to eco-urban projects, participants will critically explore how grassroots innovation shapes more equitable urban futures.