Research at Sciences Po

Sciences Po is an institution of higher education and research in the humanities and social sciences. Its work in law, economics, history, political science and sociology is pursued through eleven research units and several crosscutting programmes.

Its research community includes nearly three hundred seventy members and three hundred twenty PhD candidates.  Recognised internationally, their work covers a wide range of topics such as inequality, education, democracies, urban development, globalisation and public health.  

One of Sciences Po’s key objectives is to make a significant contribution to methodological, epistemological and theoretical advances in the humanities and social sciences.  Sciences Po’s mission is also to share the results of its research with the international research community, students, and more broadly, society as a whole. 

In the 2023 QS World University Rankings by subject, Sciences Po has reached the 2nd rank in the world in Politics, ahead of Oxford, Princeton University and the London School of Economics and Political Studies (LSE).

Sciences Po is for the third time the best university of the European Union in this discipline. Read more.