Global reach

With staff and locations in time zones around the world, our vast global presence means that EF never sleeps...

100+

Countries/regions

600+

Offices and schools

50+

Of experience

Who we are

At EF Education First, we believe that the world is better when people try to understand one another. Since 1965, EF has helped millions of people see new places, experience new cultures, and learn new things about the world and about themselves.

Technology

We’re not dogmatic about technology. It’s a vital component of what we do, but we use technology to support our goals for learning, rather than pursue it for its own sake. So we’re always looking ahead—to see how technology can help us transform education.

EF EdTech

Education

Collaborating with scholars at the University of Cambridge and the University of Tokyo, we seek to use data about language learning, teaching, and testing to better understand the science of language acquisition.

EF Research Network

Design

Design for us extends beyond graphics. To really create a world-changing service, we need to be the best in visual, interaction, and experience design - that magical intersection that fosters creativity, collaboration, and learning.

Read about EF design

Latest projects from EF EdTech

EF EPI

The EF English Proficiency Index (EF EPI) is the world’s largest ranking of countries and regions by adult English skills.

EF SET

EF SET is the world’s first free online standardized English test to help the world’s two billion English language learners.

1965

Bertli Hult invents the concept of English language travel

1970

Government deregulation pf air travel makes mass tourism possible.EF opens in many new markets with programs such as cultural exchange for high school students

1980

EF launches educational tours in the US and provides education services to the Olympic Games for the first time at the Seoul 1988 Summer Olympics

1990

The internet becomes publicly available and EF starts what is today the world's largest online language school

2000

EF opens higher education programs and international boarding schools

2010

EF and the University's of Cambridge collaborate to research language learning, and EF and the UN work together to create a joint global summer school program

2020

EF forges into the future by rapidly scaling up innocations in hybrid learning while also making a historic carbon neutrality commitment

2023

We are proud to be the Official Language Training Services Supplier for Rugby World Cup France 2023.