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You must attach all your transcripts of the past three years of secondary education, and where applicable from your first year of higher education, including periods spent in an exchange programme. You must also provide your secondary school exit exam final results.

The application process consists of two phases: A pre-selection and the oral interview. If you have not been pre-selected you will not be invited to pass an interview.

You will be able to choose from a list of available dates and locations through the online application, including the campus you are applying to in France. 

You must submit a completed application at least six weeks prior to the interview date most convenient to you.

Please note that the earlier your application reaches us, the more scope you will have to choose the interview location and therefore the more chance you will have to be interviewed in your location of choice.

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

No, you must make sure your referees have included their forms before subtmitting your application. Keep in mind your application must be completed, including the references, by the programme's or scholarship's deadline. 

No. You need to create a new account with a different email address. 

You may download an enrollement certificate through the student services centre in your online student space, once you have accepted our offer of admission. This document will assist you in obtaining a visa.

Depending on the required documents, you may also present the Letter of Admission you received from Sciences Po.

You may apply the year prior to you obtaining a diploma. However, if you are admitted, your admission will be conditional to you obtaining and providing your diploma.

When you send us missing documents at our request, the status update is not instantaneous: it might take between 7 and 15 days to update. Please be patient and avoid sending several copies of the same document. It will only slow down the process! Once we have checked out your documents, you will be able to see it directly on your online space.

To apply for the Emile Boutmy scholarship you must indicate so in the "Financial Information" section of the Sciences Po application form and must provide the required documents.

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

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

If you have taken part in an exchange programme in Sciences Po, either as an undergraduate student or in a Master's, you must apply for a Master's through the international admission procedure.

No, it is not possible : applying to the one-year master’s programme is exclusive to all other admission procedures. Candidates must therefore choose to apply either for a regular Master program (and/or dual degree) or a one-year master's programme.

No, the one year master programmes are full time study programmes (except for the Master in Arts and Politics).

The application fees are 100€ and are not refundable.

Sciences Po awards scholarships to a select number of Students, in the form of tuition reduction. These tuition reductions range from 10% to over 50%. For more information, contact the academic advisor of the programme you are applying to. 

Examples of such material may be: a degree from an institution where English is the language of instruction (at least two years of study), proof of 2 years of professional experience in an English speaking country and/or in an exclusively English speaking working environment.

For SPEAP the same exemples apply for the French language.

The jury will take these documents into consideration, but please note that a language proficiency test may be required if the material submitted is not deemed sufficient to prove your language proficiency. 

If your admission is conditional, you must provide the valid language test results no later than the given deadline of the programme.

You need to register for the language test at least two months before in order to ensure we receive them on time.

You may submit your application without your language test results and send them afterwards, as long as we receive them by the deadline of the programme you are applying to.

Warning! We will not process any scholarship or dual degree applications if we have not received language test results by the deadline for the scholarship or dual degree programme requested.

We do not accept letter by email. 

Yes, you may delete or add a referee until your application has been submitted. 

Once you have filled in (and saved) your referees' contact information on the online application, an e-mail will be sent automatically by the system inviting them to complete an online recommandation form. You should check that they have received this e-mail.

No, applicants are not allowed to read references. They are strictly confidential and will only be read by those people responsible for assessing your application.

Master programmes: you must write your resume in French or English, according to the language of the programme you are applying for. 

One year programmes: you must write your resume in English (except for SPEAP, resume to be attached in French). 

Dual degree programmes: you must write your resume in English.

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

If you have not yet finished your degree, please write your average obtained to this date.

No conversion is required. You must write your average as it is, using the grading scale of your university. In the comment of the attachment, please specify the position of your average on the transcript.

The academic year at Sciences Po begins between end of August and mid-September, depending on the programmes. Only exchange students may begin in January (second semester). Please consult the information on our Welcome programmes and be aware that certain orientation programmes may be compulsory.

No, deferrals are not granted for dual degree programmes.

Yes, insofar as you fulfill the criteria set for applying through a different procedure. However you will not be able to apply through a different procedure the same year.