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Lakhdar Brahimi, Doctor Honoris Causa

At 82, Lakhdar Brahimi has been awarded an honorary doctorate from Sciences Po after an outstanding career in international relations. We spoke to this skillful and ...

“Diplomacy is a tool to smooth out difficulties”

On 27 January 2016, Algerian diplomat Lakhdar Brahimi was awarded an honorary doctorate from Sciences Po after an outstanding career in international relations ...

Thinking of applying to Sciences Po?

ONLINE OPEN HOUSE All you need to know about Sciences Po  Saturday 13 February 2016, 3pm-6pm (Paris time) Today, half of Sciences Po’s 13,000 students come from outside ...

“We're giving back to the local community”

Students from the Sciences Po campus in Reims have been involved in Cordées de la réussite – which might translate as Connecting For Success – since 2012. There ...

“We need the United Nations"

The inaugural Youth & Leaders Summit was organised by the Sciences Po Paris School of International Affairs on 18 and 19 January 2016.

Two years in France, two years in Hong Kong

On 19 January 2016 on the Sciences Po campus in Paris, Peter Mathieson, President and Vice Chancellor of The University of Hong Kong, and Frédéric Mion, President ...

Executive Education graduation ceremony

On Thursday, 14 January 2016, the Executive Education graduation ceremony marked the end of a demanding course for the Class of 2015. Congratulations to all 260 ...

A SENSITIVE PORTRAIT OF LÉVI-STRAUSS

Emmanuelle Loyer, historian at Sciences Po, was awarded the 2015 Prix Femina Essai last autumn for her biography of Lévi-Strauss. Drawing on previously unused archives ...

The mandatory year abroad

At the Sciences Po Undergraduate College, all students spend two years in France at one of Sciences Po’s campuses followed by a mandatory year abroad, either studying at one of ...

“Once you know who you are, you can start to sketch your career plan.”

Katrin Büchenbacher, a graduate student at the Sciences Po School of Communication, talks about the discoveries she made during the ...

The French Touch at MoMA

Interview with Sciences Po alumnus Quentin Bajac, chief curator of photography at MoMA. 

"The ultimate auction experience is the thrill of the saleroom"

How can that old-time auction fever be preserved in the digital age? Édouard Boccon-Gibod, Sciences Po alumnus and recently appointed managing ...

“This agreement does not solve things; it provides a framework.”

Laurence Tubiana, a Sciences Po professor and one of the Financial Times Magazine Women of 2015, gave Sciences Po students some feedback ...

Demand, selectivity and diversity

The 2015 Sciences Po admissions report in three words: demand, selectivity and diversity.

"We need knowledge to be as accessible as possible"

Rafael Correa, President of the Republic of Ecuador, gave a lecture at the Sciences Po campus in Poitiers while in France for COP21. He told students ...

Luca Springer is a 2016 Rhodes Scholar

  Luca Springer, a student in the dual BA programme between Columbia University and Sciences Po, is one of only 89 recipients of the prestigious Rhodes scholarship ...

"Standing together to defend our common civilisation"

The four representatives of the Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet were at Sciences Po on Tuesday, 8 December 2015, invited by the winter university ...

Want to boost your career?

Sciences Po’s one-year Master’s programmes are designed for young professionals who want to take their career to the next level. They are taught in English by distinguished academics ...

Feedback on a French and German education

Natalie Welfens, a graduate from the Sciences Po-Freie Universität Berlin dual Master’s programme, is the 2015 recipient of the Université Franco-Allemande Excellence ...

Researchers from all over the world

Since 2008, around a hundred new researchers have joined Sciences Po’s research units. Meet the fifteen researchers and professors who joined us in 2015 (since September) ...

“We can't rewrite the script of climate change”

In Paris for COP21, Arnold Schwarzenegger made a stop at Sciences Po for a discussion with students on climate issues. Watch his exclusive interview for Sciences ...

A different approach to climate negotiations

Six months ago, Sciences Po students held “Make It Work”, a simulation of COP21 at the Théâtre des Amandiers in Nanterre. The experience showed that breaking ...

Paris named the best student city

For the fourth year in a row, Paris has been ranked first in the QS Best Student Cities. This ranking highlights the academic excellence, the relatively affordable tuition ...

“We need a progressive carbon tax”

On 25 November 2015, Thomas Piketty was invited by the Sciences Po School of Public Affairs to give a lecture on “Inequalities, Capital and Carbon in the 21st Century” ...