What you can learn for $1,000 to $2,500

49 options in 35 countries — long enough to reach competence, short enough to take as leave. They cover taste, move, wild, speak, make, play and still, from 1 days to 730. Prices sit between $1,000 and $4,200, median $1,600. Cheapest of the set: fermentation lab techniques in Copenhagen, Denmark, from $1,000.

Options
49

49 cities

From
$1,000

median $1,600

Typical length
14 days

1–730 day range

Certified
19 of 49

end with a named qualification

All 49, cheapest first

Other budgets and lengths

Under $1,000108Over $2,50011Under a week43One to two weeks79Two to six weeks34Six weeks or more12

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