Helping Students Build a Strong Foundation

If each student is to reach his potential, he must, through all the opportunities available at EAC, gain some degree of self knowledge and confidence, as well as an appreciation of his own self worth.

Educational Advancement Center

Who We Are

The Educational Advancement Center for Boys, located in Nashville, Tennessee, is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization focused on providing a travel abroad experience as an educational component for students that show a strong interest in strengthening creativity and cultural intelligence.

Our Mission

EAC encourages each student to be well-rounded and attain their highest level of accomplishments as a scholar, and above all, as a conscientious and responsible individual. Using each student’s strength as a starting point, our travel abroad experience will take students out of their comfort zones and expand their horizons.

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How do we prepare our students?

Our students will gain a deeper understanding of the history, culture, and language of their destination. Each educational exchange will include a service project throughout the week.

High School

Providing advice on destinations, trip itineraries, and travel arrangements for each student

Creating a culture of intellectual depth and growth through traveling abroad

Create a spirit of serving others through multiple service offerings

Traveling Abroad fosters language fluency and enhances communication skills. These experiences showcase your initiative, critical thinking, and problem-solving abilities —highly sought after qualities by colleges. In short, international experience boosts college applications

These are the colleges and universities that our students have attended

Sewanee: The University Of The South

Service

Each educational exchange will include a service project throughout the week; projects vary from building educational infrastructure to supporting health clinics for children and implementing both Global Health and Global Educational programming.

Travel Abroad

Supporting Our Students Through the Travel Abroad Process

Traveling abroad is one of the best educational experiences any young student can have. It allows our students to immerse themselves in a foreign language, appreciate different cultures, and boost their confidence by getting outside of their comfort zones.

Places our
students have visited

"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on those accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the all ones’ lifetime"

Study abroad

COMING IN 2026

College Students

Connecting our college undergraduate students from all majors with international study.

Study Abroad offers U.S. college students a way to learn about cultures, network, master other languages, and develop self-reliance and other life skills.

The experience can be especially rewarding if the location is related to a student's area of academic focus. Forbes, ‘24

“It is difficult to imagine that a college graduate will not need the skills gained through study abroad and other global experiences,“ he wrote in an email. “Whether it is a doctor who treats patients originating from other countries, a teacher with students from underrepresented backgrounds, or a scientist working in a multinational, it is increasingly necessary for graduates to be able to navigate differences and work with people from other cultures and backgrounds.”