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Admissions Report 2017: Sciences Po's Attractiveness Confirmed

The 2017 admissions report confirms Sciences Po’s attractiveness, with nearly 17,000 candidates in total and international students in particular ...

Poor indicators make poor policy

In his new book Measuring Tomorrow: Accounting for Well-Being, Resilience, and Sustainability in the Twenty-First Century, OCFE* researcher Eloi Laurent challenges existing ...

“Data doesn’t lie”

From 29 November to 2 December 2017, the Sciences Po Medialab held a “data sprint”: four days of collaboration between researchers, developers, journalists and designers to analyse ...

“To be a PhD student is to be at the heart of knowledge production”

Of Sciences Po’s seven graduate schools, the Doctoral School has a unique status. This school awards both Master’s and doctoral degrees ...

“There’s something special about moving far from your comfort zone”

Evangeline Larsen was born and raised in Australia. Last year, after completing high school at Oxley College in Burradoo, New South Wales ...

7 reasons to choose a one-year Master’s at Sciences Po

Sciences Po in Paris offers one-year Master’s programmes for young professionals who want to fast-track their career. Each of these intensive programmes ...

Committed to Africa

Romaric Compaoré comes from Burkina Faso and is working on a project to facilitate access to water in his village. Romaric is part of the first cohort of Sciences Po - MasterCard Foundation ...

Why is Paris the best place to study arbitration?

In 2017, the Sciences Po Law School launched a LLM in Transnational Arbitration and Dispute Settlement, a 1-year programme for professionals taught ...

Honorary doctorates: 3 exceptional individuals

On 12 December, three new doctors honoris causa will join the ranks of Sciences Po’s honorary degree recipients, alongside such illustrious names as Vaclav ...

Sociology and basketball

After two years studying on the Reims campus, Lukas Noah Drammeh travelled to the United States where he is currently spending his third year at the University of North Carolina ...

Secondary school students gain valuable insight from Sciences Po undergrads

“What can I learn at Sciences Po?”, “Are all the courses in English?”, “Why choose Sciences Po rather than another university?” ...

Cambridge and Sciences Po strengthen ties

The two universities consolidate their partnership at a time when collaboration across the channel is more crucial than ever.

Leadership for a responsible future

On 22 November at Sciences Po, University of St.Gallen professor Omid Aschari gave a Master Class on effective leadership for a responsible future to students from the ...

Humans of Paris

Marco Hazan, a Master of Marketing and Market Research student at Sciences Po, is also the creator of the successful photographic series Humans of Paris, inspired by Humans of New York. ...

New members of the Sciences Po faculty

Since September 2017, nine internationally recognised academics have joined Sciences Po’s permanent faculty. They will enrich our research and teaching in history ...

6 one-year Master’s for professionals from 6 fields

Sciences Po offers one-year Master’s programmes for young graduates and early- to mid-career professionals who want to fast-track their career. Each of ...

MICHELIN-STARRED CHEF GIVES A MASTERCLASS AT SCIENCES PO

Alain Passard, French chef and owner of the three-star restaurant L'Arpege, came to Sciences Po on 8 November 2017 to give an exceptional masterclass ...

“Punitive action is not the only response”

Should we decriminalise cannabis? Or legalise it? Or, as in one option discussed by the French government, make its use punishable only by a fine? Two members ...

Diplomacy, or the art to adjusting to reality

Staffan de Mistura, UN Special Envoy to Syria, came to speak at Sciences Po on the delicate art of negotiation in wartime, an art that requires patience, creativity ...

Saving money, losing lives

Analysis by David Paltiel, professor at Yale School of Public Health and a visiting professor at the Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Evaluation of Public Policies (LIEPP) at ...

“Being LGBTI is not a Western influence, it’s a human reality”

In 2012, Anan Bouapha founded Proud to Be Us Laos, the country's first civil society organisation promoting equal rights for young LGBTI. ...

A healthy passion for helping others

Ashale Chi from Cameroon is part of the first cohort of MasterCard Foundation Scholars at Sciences Po. Ashale talked to us about her first months in the Europe-Africa ...

Nobel laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus at Sciences Po

In October, Nobel laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus came to Sciences Po for an hour-long discussion with students at the Sciences Po School of Public ...

“As arbitration practitioners, we have a duty to take part in institution building”

After four years of working as a lawyer in international arbitration and cross-border litigation, Leia Shin (33) decided ...