Whether an athlete participates in water-, land-, sea- or air-based extreme sports, studying adventure sports can open additional career options. In these programs, they could learn about safety, coaching, tourism and management. Courses may introduce students to new sports too.

Costa Rica offers a sponsored and at the same time students-friendly higher learning curriculums. The country has 20 public and 44 private universities with the leading three public universities being University of Costa Rica, The national university and Costa Rican Institute of Technology.

Courses are academic classes taught by qualified instructors that are intended to enhance participant’s knowledge of a given area or training in a particular discipline. Courses vary broadly in terms of length, size, content and duration.