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No, you are not. Applicants who obtain a French baccalauréat in a French high school abroad must open and submit their application through the Parcoursup platform. 

No, you do not have to sit for the SAT/ACT test if you hold an IB diploma.

No. It is the nationality of your undergraduate diploma that will be taken into account.

Applicants from the Southern hemisphere who will be graduating towards the end of the year are not required to ask for a derogation and are directly eligible to the 2023 international admission pathway. 

The Boutmy committees take place several times during the year. You will hear whether your have been awarded a scholarship by mid June at the latest.

There is no specific procedure for applicants with refugee status. You are therefore invited to submit your application online.

However, applicants who are able to justify their refugee status with official supporting documents will, upon verification, benefit from an exemption from application fees.

Your CV should be written in French or in English, depending on the language(s) of the programmes you are applying to.

No proof of language proficiency is required at the time of application, but you must ensure that your level allows you to apply to the programmes you are interested in and, should you be admitted, to attend classes taught in these languages.

Remote interviews generally take place 3 to 4 weeks after the application deadline. 

No, applicants cannot view the reference letters. They are strictly confidential and will only be read by those responsible for assessing your application.

Yes, if you are preparing a binational diploma (Abibac, Bachibac or Esabac) in a foreign high school, you are eligible to the international pathway. However, if you are preparing a binational diploma in a French high school, you must apply through Parcoursup.

International applicants will be informed of the outcome of their application through their personal dashboard and by e-mail.

No, applications to the BASc programme will be made via the list of courses offered at Sciences Po alone.

No, in order for your application to be considered for this programme in collaboration with the partner institution (either the Institut de physique du globe de Paris, University of Paris or the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne), you must select the course as your first choice and validate the place via our online application form.

The tuition fees operate in the same way as for our other dual degrees with French partner institutions, in that students must pay the fees set by both the universities at which they are enrolled. During their third year abroad, students of the dual degree can benefit from the mobility grants offered at Sciences Po. For all students in their fourth year, in the case that a significant proportion of teaching is conducted at the partner university, Sciences Po will reduce its own tuition fees. 

The mathematic requirements of the BASc vary depending on each course: for the dual degree in Liberal Arts and Earth Sciences, offered on Sciences Po’s Paris Campus, students must demonstrate excellent mathematic ability within a scientific course of secondary education. However, for the dual degree in Liberal Arts and Life Sciences, offered on the Reims Campus, it is not mandatory for students to have completed a scientific course. They must, above all, be able to demonstrate their curiosity for issues relating to the environment, biodiversity, and the challenges of ecological transition.

No, candidates are only permitted to select one dual degree programme on their Sciences Po application form. However, if you are also applying to an international dual degree at one of the six dual degree programmes that require candidates to apply through the partner institution and not Sciences Po, in this case alone, you will be permitted to submit two separate application forms. 

You may apply during the academic year in which you will obtain the undergraduate diploma (bachelor's degree or equivalent) which will make you eligible for the chosen Master's programme. Should you be selected, your admission will be confirmed at the time of your administrative registration and once you have obtained your degree. 

It depends on the degree(s) obtained during these studies. The international procedure is open to applicants who hold or will hold by the end of the current academic year:

- a non-French undergraduate degree (or 180 ECTS credits) from an institution located in France or abroad; or

- a non-French graduate degree from a country where universities do not award undergraduate degrees.

You cannot apply to a Master's programme through two different admission procedures the same year.

If you are enrolled in a half French, half non-French course of study (awarding a degree that is both French and non-French) and the majority of your transcripts have a French grading, then you must apply through the domestic procedure.

You may apply if you have already obtained, or will obtain by the end of the current academic year, a Bachelor's degree or 180 ECTS credits.

Candidates from French peparatory classes (CPGE) may apply through our domestic procedure if they have completed a progressive course of study of at least three years providing a Bachelor level (licence/bac+3) equivalence, and have accumulated a minimum of 180 ECTS credits.

No, you cannot apply to two dual degree programmes.

However, you can apply to one dual degree programme and to one Master's programme, in which case the dual degree programme will be automatically positionned as a first choice and the Master's programme as a second.

If deadlines for these two programmes differ, you must consider the first to come to term.

No, you may not. You have to choose between applying to an initial education programme (Master and/or dual degree) or applying to a one-year Master's programme. These are 2 different courses, one is a state-approved degree, the other (the one-year Master's programme) is an institutional diploma.

They are unique programmes in partnership with an affiliated university characterized by specific enrolment requirements and diplomas. These programmes are only opened to students from Sciences Po and from partner universities. Please review the eligibility criteria and the specificities of each programme.

In order to apply to any of these programmes, you must select the  “Partnership Programme” procedure in the online application to view the accurate list of programmes available. 

Sciences Po offers the possibility of an apprenticeship within certain Master's programmes.

During their apprenticeship, students receive a salary from their company. They are exempt from tuition fees, which are paid by the company. The work-study schedule is specific to each Master's programme.

It is common for applicants to be selected for the Master's programme and rejected for the dual degree. However, generally speaking, if your application is rejected for a Master's programme, it is very unlikely that it will be selected for a dual degree, since Sciences Po's selection criteria are the same in both cases. 

Sciences Po students can receive grants from many different organisations.

Sciences Po offers scholarships to certain students, in the form of tuition fee discounts ranging from 10% to over 50%. For more information, please contact the person in charge of the programme you are interested in.

You can add referees as long as your application has not been submitted. You can also delete referees as long as they have not validated their references.

In your application form, go into the academic background section and click on the check box which appears on the right of the referee from whom a reference is pending. A pop up box will appear with the question :"Are you sure you want to suppress this reference?" If yes, please accept. You will then be able to add a new referee.

Make sure you inform your referee ahead of your request, as an automatic notification email will be sent once you provide their contact information.

No, your application must be complete, references included, by the programme or scholarship deadline. It is your responsibility to make sure your referees have completed their forms before submitting your application.

In the Academic background section, you are required to enter your exact cumulative/final grade average for each university degree (Bachelor and Master level if adequate) in the dedicated box. 

If your degree is still in progress, please enter the average obtained to this date.

No conversion is required. Write down your average as is, using the grading scale of your university. If your average is stated on your transcript, please specify in the comment of the attachment where on the document it can be found.

In that case, you can enter September 1st of the current year.

You have been admitted at Sciences Po on the condition that you prove the required language proficiency for the programme.

On our offer of admission, you will find your username (student ID) and a temporary password that will allow you to sign in to your student account and accept the offer.

No, it is not possible to transfer to a different graduate programme (Master's programme, one-year Master's programme or dual degree programme).