Diverse programme offerings

Regional and urban policy-making takes place everywhere, in the public and private sectors and at the local and international levels. The Urban School's programmes prepare students and professionals for urban governance in all its forms.

Graduate students with a Bachelor's degree

• The Master Regional and Urban Strategy: to study regional and urban governance in France and Europe
• The dual Master of Urban Policy with the London School of Economics (LSE, UK): to study regional and urban governance with a European and international approach and earn degrees from both Sciences Po and LSE.
• The dual Master Comparative Urban Governance with the the Centro de Estudios Démograficos, Urbanos e Ambientales (CEDUA) at El Colegio de Mexico: to provide a great academic background in urban social analysis, urban economics, urban management and planning policies at the metropolitan scale, in a comparative approach between European, international and Latin American cities.
• The Master of Governing the Large Metropolis (GLM): to train in the governance of very large world cities

Graduate students having completed the 1st year of a Master's programme & professionals with initial work experience

The Urban Planning Programme: a highly technical, multidisciplinary programme in urban planning, land use and real estate.

Professionals

• The Executive Master of Metropolitan Governance: to prepare for change management roles by gaining a cross-cutting, analytical perspective of metropolitan governance.
• The Executive Master of Real Estate Strategy and Finance, in partnership with the ENFI (National School of Real Estate Financialisation), offers professionals a multi-sectoral approach to real estate and its financialisation.

All levels

• The "Cities are back in town" MOOC offers a conceptual and comparative approach to understanding urban models, how they are changing and the social and political issues they raise.
• The "Searching for the Grand Paris" MOOC handles questions and stakes bound to the development of Grand Paris.

Teaching methods: practical training and academic rigour

The Urban School's programmes give high priority to gaining practical experience in real-world conditions (group projects, capstones, etc). Students learn to work collaboratively and enjoy an intense study experience.

In a constant exchange between theory and practice, the School's strong research focus ensures students learn academic rigour and adopt a critical perspective.

Sociologists and consultants, architects and economists, politicians and geographers: the Urban School faculty brings together top scholars and practitioners from throughout the urban planning and policy field.

Approach: understanding the city through comparison

All the courses at the Urban School employ a comparative approach. This provides students with analytical frameworks and useful benchmarks in a rapidly changing environment, and accustoms them to thinking on a global scale. Study trips are a key part of this approach:

• Study trips – Regional and Urban Strategy
• Study trips – Governing the Large Metropolis

Our programmes use the social sciences – political science, sociology and economics, supplemented by history, geography and law – to provide an understanding of urban models from a multidisciplinary perspective.