Curricula

Sciences Po offers a wide range of courses in the Social Sciences, the Humanities and Scientific Humanities. Exchange students can choose among 240 different courses and up to 30 ECTS credits depending on their needs and requirements. With a full course load (30 credits), students enrolled for a whole year are eligible for Sciences Po’s Undergraduate Exchange Programme Certificate.

The Undergraduate Exchange Programme Certificate

In order to obtain the Undergraduate Exchange Programme Certificate, students must follow one of the recommended English, French or English/French Programmes outlined above, each consisting in two full semester course loads (60 ECTS credits total), and must validate a minimum of 45 ECTS credits overall.
This certificate will also indicate a linguistic and/or thematic “mention”, providing the student has successfully completed at least 40 ECTS credits of a full year 60-credit ECTS course load in a specific discipline or language:

• Students at the Paris Campus may choose a thematic “concentration” (eg. 40 ECTS in the Economics and Business discipline). Exchange Students at the Regional Regional Campuses are awarded a thematic “mention” in International Studies depending on their focus
• Students who take at least 40 ECTS credits of courses instructed in French will be awarded a special “mention Francophone” on their certificate.
• Students who take at least 40 ECTS credits of courses instructed in English will be awarded a special “mention Anglophone” on their certificate.

Programs

French Programme

A student wishing to study entirely in French must register in the following manner:

English Programme

A student wishing to study entirely in English must register in the following manner:

English and French Programme

A student wishing to study in French AND English must register in the following manner:

The different types of courses at Sciences Po

• Cours magistral or Lecture: 48 hours
  • 1 course by a professor in an amphitheater, usually around 150 to 300 students
  • 1 course by a maître de conférence in smaller groups of 20 to 24 students
• Seminars: 24 hours
  • groups of 60 to 100 students
  • a dedicated Teaching Assistant with 6 sessions of tutorials
• Electives: 24hours
  • groups of 20 to 24 students
• Workshops ou Ateliers de pratique artistique
  • groups of 15 to 18 students
  • dedicated to the practice of an art and the intellectual reflexion on it

Majors offered at Sciences Po

Sciences Po offers exchange students ten disciplines of study. Students may choose one discipline, or select courses from a variety of disciplines.