Since 2000, the IEP has abandoned the traditional curriculum in three years, with one year in the

preparatory cycle and two years in the graduate cycle. Today it works with the European system
defined in Bologna with a master's degree in five years. Schooling is divided into two cycles:
undergraduate in three years and graduate in two years.

Admission

You can enter the Institute after your Baccalaureate (Baccalauréat, "Bac + 0"). This test is very
selective. Only 7% of candidates are admitted (about 500 out of more than 5500 candidates).

You can also enter with proof of high excellence in secondary school.

You can also enter your fourth year directly after a bachelor's degree at another university ("Bac +
3"). To enter, there is another exam with 33% of the admitted candidates.

Undergraduate cycle

The undergraduate cycle comes from the extension of the old preparatory year that lasted two years
and was completed by a compulsory year abroad, by studies or an internship. Until 2006, first cycle
schooling is not a diploma, but the governing board decided on December 11, 2006 to create a "first
cycle certificate."

The objective of the undergraduate cycle is the initiation of students in the main disciplines of their
training (political science, history, economics, sociology, geography, etc.), the acquisition of working
methods, and the strengthening of two chosen foreign languages ( as long as they have a sufficient
level in English).

Many of the professors at Sciences Po (nickname for the Institute of Political Science in Paris) are
among the best in France. For example: Olivier Duhamel and Guy Carcassonne make the
constitutional law class. Dominique Strauss-Kahn (former director of the International Monetary
Fund) was a professor of economics for many years.

There are also specialized undergraduate cycles in one region of the world and belonging to Sciences
Po in other French cities:

A Franco-German cycle in Nancy;

A cycle of Latin America, Spain and Portugal in Poitiers;

A cycle of Central and Eastern Europe in Dijon;

A cycle of the Mediterranean and Arab World in Menton;

A cycle of Euro-Asia in Le Havre;

A Euro-American cycle in Reims;

A Euro-African cycle in Reims.

Graduated cycle

Specialization comes in the second cycle. Students attend a common core for three semesters of
classes that includes, in addition to the two foreign languages, a teaching in political thought, a
geopolitical initiative and a macroeconomics. The rest of the lessons are specialized.

The specializations are:

Master of Public Affairs. The "Master of Public Affairs" is a two-year professional master's program
taught in English with a very international student profile, including 20% from Central America and
South America. South Students must have at least two years of work experience before applying for
admission;

Public Relations, where the lessons focus on public law, public finance and social, European and
international issues. Graduates of this specialization are destined to pass the ENA exams for senior
administrative positions in the French State. They can also work in a private company in contact with
the public sphere;

International matters;

Judicial and legal careers to become a judge or lawyer;

Communication, within the Faculty of Communication opened its doors in September 2007;

Marketing;

Economic Law;

Finance and strategy, with an agreement with the Master of the University of Paris-Dauphine;

Management of human resources;

Journalism, within the School of Journalism;

Management of culture and the media;

European Affairs;

Territorial strategies and urban areas;

Master of Urban Planning Sciences Po

Half of the fifth year is spent on an internship or study abroad trip.