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Global Programs

St. Albans connects the nation’s capital with the entire world. We proudly offer school sponsored trips, ambassadorships, and a robust fellowship program.
Whether hiking in the Alps, studying l’histoire de la démocratie in a French lycée, watching the World Cup in a Mexican café, teaching youngsters in a school in India, helping produce authentic Iberian ham in a tiny Andalusian village, or excavating a Roman archaeological site, St. Albans students are gaining a better understanding of themselves and the role they play in our world.
 
Almost half of our students go overseas on a school-sponsored trip during their time in the Upper School. Financial aid is available at the same rate as tuition assistance.

Fellowships

Sometimes a personal interest is so compelling, it must be explored. Our 13 fellowships open that door.

  • The William Mills ’08 Memorial Fellowship

    This travel fellowship supports a St. Albans student with demonstrated intellectual curiosity and substantive interests outside the traditional curriculum.

  • The K.S. Wu Fellowship

    This fellowship provides the opportunity for summer travel and study in one or more nations of the Pacific Rim.

  • The Bishop John T. Walker Fellowship

    This fellowship provides funding for undertaking an intensive social service project during the summer, either domestically or internationally.

  • The Teplitz Family Fellowship in Civil Rights and Social Justice

    This fellowship fosters awareness of civil rights and social justice issues in the United States.

  • The John Eisenstein Fellowship

    The fellowship seeks to foster individual cultural growth and awareness through travel that affords significant intellectual and cultural enrichment.

  • The Dorothy Marks Fellowship for Critical Inquiry

    This fellowship provides a student the opportunity to explore in depth a topic of current relevance in journalism, the media, politics, world affairs, economics, or contemporary society.

  • The W. Carter Bowles Jr. Musical Scholarship

    This scholarship awards grants to two boys to develop musical skills during the summer months.

  • The Heischman Travel Fellowship

    This fellowship seeks to promote St. Albans’ goal of more fully integrating ethics into its life and curriculum—specifically in the discovery, observation, exploration, and study in the areas of ethics, philosophy, spirituality, or religion.

  • The Class of 2007 Travel Fellowship

    This fellowship allows students to travel to Africa to work with a nonprofit or community service organization.

  • The Parents’ Association Visual Arts Summer Fellowship

    This fellowship offers multiple grants to stimulate interest and competence in visual arts during the summer.

  • The Montgomery Raiser Fellowship

    To encourage the discovery, friendship, growth, and sensitivity that travel and immersion in another culture uniquely offer, this fellowship provides a student with the opportunity to travel anywhere they choose.

  • The Seymour R. Bolten Stipend

    Members of the NCS-St. Albans Government Club are eligible for a stipend for a summer internship, travel, or study relating in some way to public service.

  • The Hatch Science Fellowship

    This fund seeks to provide opportunities for summer research for students interested in careers in the natural sciences.
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Ambassadorships

Want to be fully immersed in another culture? Ambassadorships provide an opportunity to live with a host family and attend school as if you lived in that country.

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  • Christ's College — Christchurch, New Zealand

    This program consists of a three-week exchange with Christ’s College, an Anglican school for boys in Christchurch, New Zealand. Two rising Form V students will host two students from Christ’s College in April. The St. Albans students will then travel to New Zealand for three weeks in the summer.

  • Scotch College — Melbourne, Australia

    Two students attend Scotch College, an independent Presbyterian day and boarding school for boys located in the heart of suburban Melbourne. Founded in 1851, Scotch College is affiliated with the International Coalition of Boys’ Schools. STA Boys stay with their exchange partner and his family and immerse themselves in the life of the school.

  • St. John’s College — Johannesburg, South Africa

    Two students attend St John's College, a private school for boys in Houghton, Johannesburg. St John's College is a member of the International Boys' Schools Coalition and the Independent Schools Association of Southern Africa.

  • School Year Abroad — France, Italy, Spain

    Through the independent organization School Year Abroad (SYA), a limited number of St. Albans students in Forms IV or V may attend an SYA school in France, Italy, or Spain. SYA is a nonprofit, study-abroad and home-stay program for American high school students. Established in 1964 by Phillips Academy Andover, St. Paul’s School, and Phillips Exeter Academy, SYA operates four independent American schools in France, Italy, and Spain. Students attend classes with up to sixty other American students for one semester or an entire academic year, live with a carefully selected local family, engage in an exciting curriculum that brings the language and history of Europe to life, and travel extensively throughout their host country.

  • The PORG School — Prague, Czech Republic

    Two St. Albans students attend PORG (První obnovené reálné gymnázium), a small school in Prague with an international focus. Each stays in the home of a PORG student who knows English. The students are encouraged to explore the city’s communities and history, focusing on topics such as the city of Kafka, the Jewish quarter, or the span of Prague’s architecture.

  • French School Exchange — France

    THE PROGRAM: In the morning, students attend classes with their French exchange student at St. Louis de Gonzague School (also known as the Franklin School), a renowned, private secondary school in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. Afternoons they explore Paris under a St. Albans French teacher’s supervision. These guided tours are crafted so that students do not just sight see but learn about French history, literature, art, and culture, and about the history of Paris. At the Eiffel Tower, students learn about the engineering and architecture of the tower and its construction as a gateway to the Exposition Universelle held in 1889. At the Champ de Mars and Ecole Militaire (where Napoleon studied) and les Invalides (where he is buried), they discuss the French Revolution. Each student stays in the home of a Franklin School student.

  • The Doon School — Dehradun, India

    Two students attend the Doon School, an all boys independent boarding school located in the foothills of the Himalayas, north of Delhi. Founded in 1935, the Doon School is a member of the International Boys' Schools Coalition. Boys live in boarding houses and may stay with families on weekends.

  • St. Albans Cross-Country Exchange, Hertfordshire, U.K.

    This exchange with our namesake, the 1,000-year-old St. Albans School in Hertfordshire, U.K., introduces runners to another culture and offers opportunities to grow through competing athletically in an international context. Students tour the school, sightsee, and run in two competitions.

Exchanges & Group Trips

Join with friends and faculty to explore another culture abroad and develop your language skills. Builder closer friendships, see the world, and discover new passions! 

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  • Lower School Abroad — France

    On this nine-day homestay trip (expected to take place for the first time in June 2025), Lower School students will stay with French families and work closely with various French educators, increasing their knowledge of the Francophone world and its peoples. They will broaden their horizons far beyond the textbook by directly being exposed to the best of culture, art, history, and French language in four main sites: the Antibes, Nice, Cannes, and Monaco.

  • Lower School Abroad — Summer in Spain

    Form I and II boys are eligible for this one- to two-week trip to Spain, accompanied by St. Albans faculty. The program offers students a dynamic language-immersion experience in areas of Spain more removed from English-speaking tourism followed by time in the city of Barcelona, where students engage in behind-the-scenes activities alongside local residents and guides.

  • The ASSIST Program

    To promote mutual understanding, cultural interchange, and a more peaceful world, ASSIST provides opportunities for outstanding international students to attend the finest American independent secondary schools on one-year scholarships.

    Through the ASSIST Scholars program, an international student attends St. Albans for one year. ASSIST is not an exchange program; nevertheless, the student’s presence at school provides opportunities for all to learn about different countries and cultures. The ASSIST student lives in the dorm or with a host family when the dorm is closed, and he becomes fully immersed in school and extracurricular activities. During his stay, he shares—both informally and, if he chooses, formally—insights and information about his own country and culture. The mission of the nonprofit ASSIST organization, which selects the student and places him at St. Albans, is “to discover, select, place and support outstanding international students on one-year scholarships in American independent secondary schools of stature. ASSIST students are models of achievement at their American schools, where they add to the academic vitality of the community, make contributions to the artistic, athletic, community service and other extracurricular programs, and share willingly their own unique cultural backgrounds.”

  • Upper School Abroad — Taiwan and Hong Kong

    The Upper School Chinese teachers from St. Albans and NCS accompany students in the coordinate Chinese program on a spring break trip to Hong Kong and Taiwan. The trip provides students in the Chinese program with an immersive cultural experience and an opportunity to apply their language skills and cultural competence.

  • Chorale Trip Abroad — Chile, England, Australia, South Africa, and more!

    Every four years, the Chorale and Orchestra, made up of Upper School students from St. Albans and NCS, take an international trip, giving performances and taking excursions throughout a country. Previous destinations include Argentina and Chile, England, Australia, and South Africa. The trips occur every fourth year so that every student in the Chorale and Orchestra will have an opportunity during Upper School to travel abroad with the group.
Located in Washington D.C., St. Albans School is a private, all boys day and boarding school. For more than a century, St. Albans has offered a distinctive educational experience for young men in grades 4 through 12. While our students reach exceptional academic goals and exhibit first-rate athletic and artistic achievements, as an Episcopal school we place equal emphasis upon moral and spiritual education.