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CET AcademicPrograms company history timeline

1982

CET Academic Programs is a study abroad organization that has been developing and operating innovative educational programs abroad since 1982.

1988

The first local roommate program launches at CET Harbin in 1988.

1989

The 1989 Tian’anmen Massacre derails study abroad in China and CET enrollments.

1994

In 1994, CET is acquired by Academic Travel Abroad and and relocates to Washington, DC.

2004

CET partners with Middlebury College in 2004 to open the first Middlebury School in China program in Hangzhou.

2008

In 2008, CET’s first internship program opens in Shanghai, and buoyed by the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, CET’s enrollments in China hit all-time highs.

2012

Building on our core strength in language teaching, intensive language programs are opened in Japan and Syria (now CET Jordan). Long-time Academic Travel Abroad executives Kate Simpson and Chase Poffenberger take over ownership of ATA and CET in 2012.

2016

Mark Lenhart joins the ownership team a few years later in 2016.

2018

And in 2018, CET goes back to high school, running the first pre-college programs under the CET name in Beijing and Florence.

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