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17 August 2026
Welcome to the 2,000+ New First-Year Undergraduate Students
Sciences Po is proud to welcome more than 2,000 students selected to undertake their first year of a bachelor’s degree or a dual bachelor's degree at the Undergraduate College. These students have been admitted through the international admissions route, the French Parcoursup platform, or onto certain international dual degree programmes run by our partners. Eager to learn more? Check out the 2026 admissions committee report (in French).
Are you starting your first year at Sciences Po this fall term 2026? Meet the Services, Welcome Programme, Welcome day, Buddy Programme, compulsory orientation programmes, the Library treasure hunt: check out about the various orientation programmes available.
Sciences Po students welcoming the 2026 first-years
President Luis Vassy also welcomed the newly admitted students
On 2 June 2026, Luis Vassy recorded a video congratulating the students who had been accepted on the French Parcoursup platform through the general route and the Equal Opportunity route.
This is a great day for Sciences Po and for many of you, as we have announced our results on Parcoursup. 1,006 applicants have been admitted to Sciences Po and will have the opportunity to join this unique place, this remarkable institution open to the world and engaged with society. This is a place of intellectual rigour but also of adaptability, a place where, through a combination of theoretical and practical knowledge, you will be prepared to tackle the major challenges of the world we live in.
These 1,006 students will join students on national and international dual-degree programmes, as well as our students recruited through the international admissions process, to form a truly extraordinary student community. We look forward to welcoming you all to our campuses in all your diversity, whether you come from mainland France, the overseas territories, or French secondary schools abroad. It is this diversity of backgrounds that makes us so special.
I would like to say a word about the 124 secondary school scholarship holders who will be joining us; this is once again a high figure, and we rejoice in it. Some might say that this is not enough: I would draw your attention to the fact that we are specifically talking about secondary school scholarship holders; there will, of course, be many more scholarship holders at university level. Sciences Po has a policy of social inclusion that is truly unique in the world, and of which we are particularly proud.