FAQ on Master's preference procedure for students at the Undergraduate College

You are required to choose your Master’s programme and foreign languages via your Student Account using the following path: Academic services > Online course registration > Inscriptions spécifiques 2026/2027 > Vœu de Master

Your administrative registration for the current year must be finalized before you can express your Master’s preference. For further information about administrative procedures, please contact the administrative registration office by email. Be sure to carefully fill out the contact information form so that they can identify your situation and provide you with an appropriate response.

You must record your choices via your online student account between Friday, 19 and Sunday, 21 March 2027 (by 11:59 pm Paris time).

You have different ways:

• by providing external C1 certification;
• by providing the C1 level attestation validated by Sciences Po that you can download from your student account;
• If you attended an English track at the Undergraduate College (North America in Reims, Le Havre or Menton), you may use it to apply for an English-track Master's programme. In this case, you will need to provide your certificate of enrolment.
• if you were abroad for your 3A in an English-track, it is a proof for your C1 level. For your application you have just to join this certificate available on your student account describing the country where you have been.

The programmes subjected to conditions are:

• At the School of Public Affairs: 
  • International Dual Degrees with the Master in Public Policy (in English): Columbia University (School of International and Public Affairs), London School of Economics, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy (Toronto University), Bocconi University, Saint-Gall University, Graduate School of Public Policy (Tokyo University).
  • Dual degrees in public policy with French institutions: École du Louvre (only in the field of Culture), HEC Paris (in French and English).
  • International Dual Degrees with the Master in European Affairs (in English): Freie Universität, London School of Economics, Bocconi University, Fudan University, Saint-Gall University.
• At the Law School (in French): To apply to the Joint Master droit et finance (with the School of Management and Impact), please complete the application form, indicating this programme as wish 1, and you will have to fill in a second form indicating your wish 2 (not subject to an admission committee).
• At the Journalism School: to apply for the Master en journalisme (in French) or for the Joint Master in Journalism and International Affairs (with PSIA, in English), please complete this form before 31 January 2027, the Journalism School's team will get back to you in order to invite you to an online interview, to be held between 22 February and 5 March 2027.
• At the School of Management and Impact: 
  • Joint Master droit et finance (with the Law School, in French). Please, complete the application form, indicating this programme as wish 1, and you will have to fill in a second form indicating your wish 2 (not subject to an admission committee).
  • Dual Degrees with the Master Finance and Strategy (in English): Fundação Getulio Vargas - Escola de Administração de Empresas de São Paulo (FGV EAESP, Brasil), University of Pennsylvania (Carey Law School), Saint-Gall University.
  • Dual Degrees with the Master International Business and Strategy (in English): Fundação Getulio Vargas - Escola de Administração de Empresas de São Paulo (FGV EAESP, Brasil), University of Pennsylvania (Carey Law School) and Saint-Gall University.
  • Dual Degree with the Master Communications, Media and Creative Industries: Fudan University (in English).
• At the School of Research: Dual degree with Université Paris 1 (Economis and Quantitative Economics, in English), King's College London (Global and International History, in English), École du Louvre (History, in French).
• At the Urban School (in English): Dual Degree with UCLA, Tata Institute of Social Sciences in Mumbai and University of Cape Town.
• At the Paris Climate School (in English): Dual Degree with Columbia University (Columbia Climate School).
• At the Paris School of International Affairs (in English): Dual degree with Columbia University (School of International and Public Affairs), Freie Universität, Cape Town University, IE School of Politics Economics and Global Affairs (only offered in the field of Technology and Global Affairs), Kings College London, London School of Economics, Peking University, Stockholm School of Economics, Saint-Gall University. Dual Degree with Sorbonne Université (in French and in English, only in the field of Environmental Policy).

If you apply for a programme without admission requirements, you have to provide only one preference.

If you apply for a programme subject to admission requirements, you must indicate it as your first choice, and pick a second preference without admission requirements, or a gap year.

For more information: master's preference.

You can check your preference have been saved through your schedule on the specific semester 2026/2027 via your online Student Account.

For more information: master’s preferences.

Your Master's preference and choice of languages for the academic year 2026-2027 will be confirmed on your online student account by 27 May 2027. You will be informed via newsletter.

Yes. You will have to express your Master’s preference only when you will be in your 4th year. However, between 19 and 21 March 2027, you have to connect to your online student account to indicate you will pursue your Bachelor. 

You have to tick the appropriate box “gap year” from 19 to 21 March on your student account. You must also send a cover letter describing your motivations to do a gap year, before 21 March 2027, 11:59 pm Paris time, at cesure.college@sciencespo.fr.

In the event you decide to leave Sciences Po, it is absolutely essential that you tick the appropriate box on your Student Account from Friday, 19 to Sunday, 21 March 2027.

To apply for a dual degree, you must:

• Complete and submit an online application in accordance with the deadlines published on the Sciences Po Admissions website. 
  • You must not create a new account; instead, log in using your Sciences Po credentials.
  • In the drop-down menus, select “French undergraduate degree” (“Licence française”), then “You are a Sciences Po student” (“Vous êtes étudiant(e) à Sciences Po”).
  • In the “Academic Background” section of your dual-degree application, you will be asked to enter your cumulative grade average at the Undergraduate College and provide supporting documentation. To obtain this document, please email premiercycle.troisiemeannee@sciencespo.fr. You must then attach the email you receive to your application as proof of your cumulative grade average (“attestation de moyenne cumulée”).
• Submit your Master’s programme preferences through your Student Account between Friday 19 March and Sunday 21 March 2027, ranking the dual degree programme as your first choice.

These are two separate procedures, and both are mandatory.

For further information, please consult the Master’s-level dual-degree admissions page.

Some dual degrees are subject to specific admission procedures with different deadlines (often much earlier or after). For more information on pre-requisites and deadlines, please check the admissions website. 

If one of your preferences is a dual degree, you must put it as your first preference and the programme without admission requirements as a second preference. Please note that as dual degrees are highly selective, your application has to be a very motivated preference. However, if you are admitted to the dual degree programme and decline that admission for valid reasons, you may then consider your second choice.

If you are applying to the Sciences Po / École du Louvre partnership, you are not required to express your preference for master's degree or language, but you must tick the box “École du Louvre partnership, gap year”.

For more information: master's preference.

Each programme determines the language requirements for its students. We therefore invite you to consult your master's programme to check how many languages you must study to validate your master.

You have to register your choices for languages from Friday, 19 to Sunday, 21 March 2027 to choose your languages schedules during course registrations in July. For further information, please visit the webpage: Charters & Timetables for foreign language classes.

For French-track programmes, it is compulsory to obtain a C1 level in English in order to stop learning this language.

In addition, obtaining the Master's degree is conditional on subject to validation of a C1 level in English. If you achieve it during your second year of undergraduate college of Sciences Po, you will keep the legacy of the C1 level achievement when graduating to Master's degree as long as they have: completed a Master’s degree curriculum taught in English, taken a C2-level English course during their master’s programme or taken a master’s level course taught in English comprising a minimum of 24 hours in your French program.

Under these conditions, the validity of this certification will be extended until the end of your course, even if you take a gap year at the end of your Bachelor's degree and/or between your M1 and M2.

You may exceptionally request a change of language until the academic registrations by filling in this form. After this period, no changes can be made.

If, for reasons beyond your control, you have not completed your mandatory language registration, you must contact the Language Department using this form.

This request, which is exceptional and must be justified, will be reviewed and may not be granted if there are no more place in the desired language.

Yes. You must pay 25% of your tuition fees for the Undergraduate Programme to retain your status as a student of Sciences Po.

Yes. You must send a cover letter describing your motivations to do a gap year, before 21 March 2027 11:59 pm Paris time at cesure.college@sciencespo.fr.

Yes, you can apply for a gap year during each academic cycle (at the end of your Bachelor's course and between M1 and M2).

If you still hesitate about taking a gap year, you must put as a first preference the programme you want and as the second preference the gap year.

Yes. You will be invited to proceed to your Master’s preferences for the academic year following your gap year. 

No. You need to make a direct request to the academic advisor into the school you want to integrate, with the agreement of the responsible person in your school.

No. You must focus on the master you desire, and tick the relevant box only once.