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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, 2019.

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.

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 Registration Office will contact you to regularize the amount if necessary.

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, 2019.

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.

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

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 and add the additional fees (healthcare, preventive medicine plan, etc.) to determine the total amount to pay.

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 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.

As part of the reform, it is not possible to change your student social security centre. You remain affiliated with the same student social security centre until August 31 2019. At the start of the 2019 academic year, you will be affiliated with the general system (CPAM).

As of September 2019, all the students will be covered by the Caisse primaire d'assurance maladie (CPAM).

If you are European and you are going on exchange in a European university (EEE and Switzerland) or doing an internship in Europe, you need to request your European Health Insurance Card (EHIC).

If you are leaving Europe, you will need, either to subscribe to the health insurance proposed by the host university or get a complementary insurance that covers you abroad.

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.

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.