Overview EF EF stands for ” Education First ”. was founded in 1965 by a young Swedish entrepreneur named Bertil Hult. EF is a privately-held company with 16 divisions that offer a range of educational programs from language training, educational travel, and academic degrees to cultural exchanges. With a mission to break down barriers in language, culture and geography, EF has helped people of all ages and nationalities become citizens of the world. Four decades later, EF Education is the world's largest private education company, with a group of ten subsidiaries and non-profit organizations centered around language learning, educational travel and degree programs. Today, EF has over 26,000 employees, teachers and volunteers. With offices and schools in 51 countries, EF has turned the world into a global classroom.

Company Profile EF Education is the world's largest private education company that specializes in language training, educational tours and cultural exchange.

The Beginning : Our first office was modest and our concept was straightforward: take Swedish high school students to England to learn English. It was a simple enough business idea on-site language and cultural studies but one with an enormous future.

Starting in Sweden with in 10 years EF has many brunch all over Europe.

And has become a well known English Institute

1972 1983 1993

EF establish the first brunch in Asia ,Japan

“ Mission to break down barriers in language, culture and geography ”  

Students exchange program EF logo redesigned by Paul Rand

EF logo by Paul Rand In order to reinforce our new identity, we needed a new logo to represent all of our products around the world. Updating our old logo—designed by Paul Rand, one of the world’s most famous graphic designers

To redesign our logo we selected Henry Steiner, a one-time student of Paul (Henry’s most famous design is the logo for HSBC.) The result, which you see above, elegantly integrates Education First Rand’s original logo was, well, a Rand design — perhaps not as superb as, say, IBM or UPS, but still smart, beautifully crafted and timeless. The redesign was commissioned to integrate “Education First” into the mark, to allow room for the product/service name to be locked-up, and to provide EF with a logo “…to represent all of our products around the world.” Steiner’s design retains the foundation of the Rand mark and executes the update around it with careful craftsmanship. When the logo is set with a product name the neutrally-toned typography finds a good visual balance. The drop shadow is an extra visual element that while not necessarily helping the semantics of the mark (it plays more contrast to the concentric circles than support) does help alleviate the blue box from being a visually flat containing shape.  

Since 1990 EF has been cooperated with Apple to manufacture a new online learning system.

1995 result in “ Englishtown ”

Why does learning have to follow the age-old classroom method? Why can't students be taught in their very own homes?

Why can't we make studying English easier and more flexible for everyone?

These questions inspired Englishtown's To use technology to create a fundamentally better way of learning English. This concept, backed by EF's thirst for innovation and willingness to make smart, long-term investments, resulted in the creation of the world's most advanced language learning system

Bill Fisher, CEO of Englishtown, co-founded the online school as an EF company in 1996.

International Target Who we help?

Our innovative teaching system has improved the way employees of industry giants like

Accenture, HSBC, and Ericsson communicate. We help leaders in a wide range of fields, from government

entities to consultancies, from telecommunications to healthcare. We also work with organizers of showcase global events.

We were very proud to be the Official Language Training Partner of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. Our next big challenge?

Providing language courses for the "Olá Turista!" project in Brazil. A partnership of the Roberto Marinho Foundation and the Ministry of

Tourism, it aims at qualifying tourism trade professionals for the 2014 World Cup to be hosted in Brazil