Choosing to immerse yourself in any of NCOAE’s courses may be one of the most powerful decisions you will ever make. While, you may be looking for outdoor adventure, experiential learning, medical training, or a combination of all three, what you’ll get is an entirely new outlook on yourself and your place in the world. The impact is astounding.
Adventure First: The National Center for Outdoor & Adventure Education (NCOAE) is the hub of relevant and inspiring programming. We believe that unique educational settings have the power to help people create positive and profoundly empowering experiences. And, our classroom extends around the world, from the remote Pacific Coast to the high Himalayan Mountains to the turquoise rivers of Patagonia and beyond.
The heart of every course is NCOAE’s core curriculum, which provides a data-proven positive impact on participants’ leadership, decision-making, and communication.
Education Always: If you would like to work professionally in the outdoor industry around the world, a course with NCOAE will challenge you to learn and practice more than you thought possible in our Outdoor Educator Instructor, Semester & Gap Year or the Women’s Wilderness Initiative. The wilderness skills you gain are applicable to a wide variety of jobs and opportunities in the outdoor, wilderness, and adventure travel industries. To top it all off, you might even be able to receive academic credit for participating in NCOAE courses from the University of North Carolina – Wilmington.
Hidden in the pristine Alaskan backcountry is a faraway adventure through the least visited National Park in the United States.
Discover Alaska's remote, technical terrain, as you backpack through rugged wilderness on a 14-day adventure.
Discover the remote, technical terrain of Alaska’s soaring peaks, as you trek across rugged wilderness on a 14-day mountaineering adventure.
Develop essential wilderness knowledge and skills — while living and learning in Alaska’s wild, beautiful places.
A 24-day Chile and Andes Mountain ski expedition designed to give you the skills needed to work professionally as an outdoor educator with international experience. And, it’s absolutely spectacular.
A 25-day Patagonia expedition designed to give you the skills needed to work professionally as an outdoor educator with international experience. And, it’s absolutely spectacular.
The peaks of Patagonia, the turquoise whitewater rivers, and the adventure of an entire semester with NCOAE in Chile – you may never want to leave.
Discover Patagonia’s breathtaking views – you’ll remember forever the 360-degree vistas and a remote high-altitude land as you backpacking and mountaineer.
Discover Patagonia’s breathtaking views – you’ll remember forever the 360-degree vistas and a remote high-altitude land as you backpack and paddle.
The Semester Himalaya with NCOAE is all about gaining the skills you need to give back.
If Outdoor Education interests you, consider our 25-day North Carolina course to help you decide whether a professional career in the outdoors is for you. We think it could be.
The wilderness is beneficial to all people during all chapters of their lives.
A semester of adventure in our own backyard.
Discover all North Carolina has to offer, as you rock climb & backpack through the Pisgah National Forest on this 14-day adventure.
Discover North Carolina’s remote, technical terrain, as you backpack, climb, and mountaineer across rugged wilderness on a 14-day adventure.
Armed with a bulging backpack full of outdoor and adventure education knowledge and skill – you’ll spend months in the wilderness, exploring mountains, rivers, and the mighty Pacific Ocean.
If exploring the remote Pacific Northwest while earning your Wilderness First Responder certificate sounds like the perfect adventure, the NCOAE Outdoor Educator course on Oregon and California’s coast is for you.
Discover Oregon’s remote, technical terrain, as you backpack, climb, and mountaineer across rugged wilderness on a 14-day adventure.
Immerse yourself in a wonderland of densely forested hills, cool mountain streams, and cascading waterfalls.
Discover Oregon’s remote, technical terrain, as you backpack and paddle through rugged wilderness on a 14-day adventure.
An African adventure with NCOAE that combines wildebeests, medical training, culture and mountains.
Live a true African adventure. Spend 33-days combining safari, Wilderness First Responder training, cultural immersion and high-altitude backpacking with NCOAE.
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