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Yes. You must complete the registration process at both institutions and pay tuition fees as specified in the partnership agreement.

Yes. You have to register at Sciences Po and pay 25% of your tuition fees. When registering online, the amount indicated will be 100% because the system does not perform specific calculations. Please pay 25% of this amount. The Registrar Office will contact you to regularize the amount if necessary.

You have to register and point out that you are waiting for the grant notification from the CROUS. Then as soon as you receive it, you need to upload the notification on your student space (step 5 of the registration process)

At registration, you must provide an official document attesting to your successful completion of the degree based on which you were admitted to Sciences Po.

This document is sufficient, and you will not need to subsequently submit your original diploma. Please consider that random checks may be done to verify the authenticity of the uploaded documents. Any violation may lead to the disciplinary committee.

If you cannot obtain such an official document, you can request an additional time (step 5: Upload supporting documents). You will have to join an official proof of completion or a copy of the actual diploma by October 31, 2020.

Important: note that if you fail to obtain the degree based on which you were admitted, your admission will be revoked and you will be deregistered.

If you do not have one, you should leave this field blank.

You will find a link on the first page of the registration process. All the needed documents are listed, according to your situation.

If you do not have all the documents such as your visa, your scholarship certificate, your health insurance evidence or your diploma, please select « require additional time » at step 5 of the online registration process to submit your registration.

Your administrative student area remains accessible for you to upload the documents once you receive them. Please note that the status of your registration will remain « incomplete » until you provide all requested documents.

At registration, you must provide an official document attesting to your successful completion of the degree based on which you were admitted to Sciences Po.

This document is sufficient, and you will not need to subsequently submit your original diploma. Please consider that random checks may be done to verify the authenticity of the uploaded documents. Any violation may lead to the disciplinary committee.

If you cannot obtain such an official document, you can request an additional time (step 5: Upload supporting documents). You will have to join an official proof of completion or a copy of the actual diploma by October 31, 2020.

Important: note that if you fail to obtain the degree based on which you were admitted, your admission will be revoked and you will be deregistered.

If you do not have all the documents such as your visa, your scholarship certificate, your health insurance evidence or your diploma, please select « require additional time » at step 5 of the online registration process to submit your registration.

Your administrative student area remains accessible for you to upload the documents once you receive them. Please note that the status of your registration will remain « incomplete » until you provide all requested documents.

You need to register and select a payment method (bank transfer or automatic direct debit). Once you have completed the registration process, divide the total amount calculated by 4.

If your gap year spans two consecutive academic years, you should follow this procedure only for the first semester.

You need to choose the “recurrent payment” at step 3 of the registration. You have to fill in your bank details and then print the direct debit mandate. This document must be signed by the account holder and be uploaded at step 5 of the registration.

Also, you will have to send the original to the Registrar Office (Accueil Administratif: 9 rue de la chaise, 75007 Paris).

N.B. If you have a bank account outside France and the Euro area, please, check that your bank accepts SEPA direct debit instalments in Euros. Sciences Po shall not be considered responsible for any payment rejection that may occur and shall apply bank rejection fees, if needed.

You need to register and select a payment method (bank transfer or automatic direct debit). Once you have completed the registration process, divide the total amount calculated by 4.

If your gap year spans two consecutive academic years, you should follow this procedure only for the first semester.

As soon as you receive the information that your registration is complete, you can log on your student account, Administrative services section; you will find an attestation of payment with the amount of your tuition fees and your payment schedule for a payment by direct debit.

In case your registration is finalised but your status remains “incomplete”, you can ask the administrator to provide you the receipt.

The income to be taken into account is that of the household of the parent(s) in which you are declared a dependent.

In case of the payment of an alimony paid to the parent in charge of the child, its amount must be included in the income to be taken into account in the calculation.

In the case of joint residence, the incomes of both parents must be taken into account.

For all situations not listed above, a specific study will be conducted by the Administrative Registration office who may ask you for additional documents.

If this is the first time you have enrolled in an institution of higher education in France, as per the France-Quebec agreement, you are eligible for health insurance. You must request a SE 401-Q-102 bis form, entitled “Attestation d’appartenance à un régime québécois préalablement au départ pour la France”, from the relevant authorities in Quebec (RAMQ). This form certifies that you are covered by health insurance in France.

No, mutuelle schemes are optional but recommended for students. They provide a complementary insurance plan that will guarantee you a higher rate of reimbursement on your medical costs. It is, however, necessary to register with the general social security system (CPAM) in order to sign up for an additional mutuelle.

Depending on your circumstances:

If you have a postal address in France, your card will be mailed to you at the address you provided during your online registration. If you do not have one, you will receive an email informing you that your card is available for pick-up at the Registrar Office (9 rue de la Chaise, 75007 Paris) or at your campus.

No. As with all teaching at Sciences Po (with the exception of lecture courses), only students officially enrolled in a class may attend.

Teachers are not authorised to accept students not enrolled on their student register.

Tutorials for several languages take place in the language lab (information about which is provided to students at the beginning of the semester). These non-compulsory tutorials are designed to offer students more time to work on their language skills and to do so on an individual basis with a teacher. They provide linguistic one-to-one support in every aspect, for example revising grammatical structures studied in class or improving pronunciation. Training for the IELTS English test is provided by the English language tutors.

If, at the beginning of a semester, a teacher believes a student to have incorrectly self-evaluated and to be studying in a class at the wrong level, the teacher will request a change of level for the student. The teacher is required to communicate this request to the Language Service within the first two weeks of the semester.

Level C2 is exclusively aimed at students who have mastered all the written and oral communication skills and all the language structures specified in the charter for level C1. Level C2 is therefore only accessible to a limited number of students and at the teacher's decision.