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{{Short description|Higher-education institution in Paris}}
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 | name                   = Paris Institute of Political Studies
 | native_name            = ''Institut d'études politiques de Paris'' ([[French language|French]])
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 | latin_name             = Institutum Scientiarum Politicarum Parisiense
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 | former_name            = ''École libre des sciences politiques''
 | motto                  = {{langx|fr|Aux racines de l'avenir}}
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 | mottoeng               = At the roots of the future
 | type                   = [[Public university|Public]] [[research university]]<br />''[[Grande école]]''<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://etudiant.lefigaro.fr/les-news/actu/detail/article/sciences-po-rejoint-la-conference-des-grandes-ecoles-21049/ |title=Sciences Po rejoint la Conférence des grandes écoles |date=30 June 2016 |access-date=16 December 2019 |archive-date=7 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190507140252/https://etudiant.lefigaro.fr/les-news/actu/detail/article/sciences-po-rejoint-la-conference-des-grandes-ecoles-21049/ |url-status=live}}</ref><br />''[[Grand établissement]]''<br />''[[Institut d'études politiques]]''
 | established            = {{start date and age|df=yes|1872}}
 | founder                = [[Émile Boutmy]]
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 | affiliations           = [[The European University of Social Sciences|CIVICA]]<br />[[Sorbonne Paris Cité (group)|Sorbonne Paris Cité]]<br />[[Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs|APSIA]]<br />[[Couperin (consortium)|COUPERIN]]<ref>{{citation |url=http://www.couperin.org/presentation/membres |title=Les membres de Couperin |language=fr |work=[[Couperin.org]] |access-date=12 July 2018 |location=Paris |archive-date=17 November 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221117072244/https://www.couperin.org/presentation/membres |url-status=dead}}</ref><br />[[Conférence des Grandes écoles|CGE]]
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 | endowment              = [[€]]127.2 million (2018)<ref name="Governance & Budget">{{Cite web |title=Governance & Budget |url=https://www.sciencespo.fr/en/about/governance-and-budget |access-date=17 August 2022 |website=Sciences Po |language=en |archive-date=17 August 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220817235044/https://www.sciencespo.fr/en/about/governance-and-budget/ |url-status=live}}</ref>
 | budget                 = €197 million (2018)<ref name="Governance & Budget"/>
 | chairperson            = [[Laurence Bertrand Dorléac]] ([[#National foundation of Sciences Po (FNSP)|FNSP]])<ref>{{Cite news |date=10 April 2021 |title=Sciences Po : l'historienne Laurence Bertrand Dorléac qualifiée pour prendre la tête de la FNSP |language=fr |work=Le Monde.fr |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2021/04/10/sciences-po-l-historienne-laurence-bertrand-dorleac-qualifiee-pour-prendre-la-tete-de-la-fnsp_6076259_3224.html |access-date=17 August 2022 |archive-date=19 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210419102301/https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2021/04/10/sciences-po-l-historienne-laurence-bertrand-dorleac-qualifiee-pour-prendre-la-tete-de-la-fnsp_6076259_3224.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
 | president              = [[Luis Vassy]]
 | provost                = [[Sergei Guriev]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=CEPR Research Fellow Sergeï Guriev appointed Sciences Po Provost |url=https://cepr.org/about/news/cepr-research-fellow-sergei-guriev-appointed-sciences-po-provost |access-date=17 August 2022 |website=CEPR |date=26 July 2022 |language=en |archive-date=17 August 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220817235038/https://cepr.org/about/news/cepr-research-fellow-sergei-guriev-appointed-sciences-po-provost |url-status=live}}</ref>
 | academic_staff         = 300<ref>{{Cite web|id=facts|title=Overview: Facts & Figures|url=https://www.sciencespo.fr/en/about/overview-facts-and-figures/}}</ref>
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 | students               = 15,000<ref>{{Cite web|title=Overview: Facts & Figures|url=https://www.sciencespo.fr/en/about/overview-facts-and-figures/}}</ref>
 | undergrad              = 4,000
 | postgrad               = 10,000
 | doctoral               = 350
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 | city                   = [[Paris]], [[Nancy, France|Nancy]], [[Dijon]], [[Poitiers]], [[Menton]], [[Le Havre]] and [[Reims]]
 | country                = France
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 | language               = [[French language|French]] and [[English language|English]] (official, university-wide)<br />[[German language|German]] (working language at the [[#Campuses#Nancy campus|Nancy campus]])<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sciences Po Paris, Campus européen franco-allemand à Nancy - Forum Franco-Allemand |url=https://www.ffa-dff.org/fr/e3026/sciences-po---campus-europeen-franco-allemand-a-nancy |access-date=17 August 2022 |website=www.ffa-dff.org |archive-date=17 August 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220817235038/https://www.ffa-dff.org/fr/e3026/sciences-po---campus-europeen-franco-allemand-a-nancy |url-status=live}}</ref><br />[[Spanish language|Spanish]] (working language at the [[Poitiers Campus, Sciences Po|Poitiers campus]])<ref>{{Cite web |title=Bienvenue à Poitiers Presente |url=https://poitierspresente.fr/message-daccueil/ |access-date=17 August 2022 |website=POITIERS PRESENTE |language=fr-FR |archive-date=17 August 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220817235040/https://poitierspresente.fr/message-daccueil/ |url-status=live}}</ref>
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'''Sciences Po''' ({{IPA|fr|sjɑ̃s po|lang}}) or '''Sciences Po Paris''', also known as the '''Paris Institute of Political Studies''' ({{langx|fr|Institut d'études politiques de Paris}}), is a public [[research university]] located in [[Paris]], France, that holds the status of ''[[grande école]]'' and the legal status of {{Lang|fr|[[Grands établissements|grand établissement]]}}.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2012-01-25 |title=L'IEP de Paris, favori de l'Etat |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2012/01/25/l-iep-de-paris-favori-de-l-etat_1634249_3232.html |access-date=2024-05-11 |work=Le Monde.fr |language=fr}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Nord |first=Philip |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eaJkEAAAQBAJ |title=France's New Deal: From the Thirties to the Postwar Era |date=2012-08-26 |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=978-0-691-15611-8 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Governance & Budget |url=https://www.sciencespo.fr/en/about/governance-and-budget |access-date=2024-05-11 |website=Sciences Po |language=en}}</ref> The university's undergraduate program is taught on the Paris campus as well as on the decentralized campuses in [[Dijon]], [[Le Havre]], [[Menton]], [[Nancy, France|Nancy]], [[Poitiers]] and [[Reims]], each with their own academic program focused on a geopolitical part of the world. While Sciences Po historically specialized in [[political science]], it progressively expanded to  other [[social science]]s such as [[economics]], [[law]] and [[sociology]].

The school was established in 1872 by [[Émile Boutmy]] as the ''École libre des sciences politiques'' in the aftermath of the [[Franco-Prussian War]] as a private institution to form a new French elite that would be knowledgeable in political science, law and history.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=Noiriel |first=Gérard |date=1990 |title=Review of Naissances de la science politique en France (1870-1914) |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3769067 |journal=Vingtième Siècle. Revue d'histoire |issue=27 |pages=130–131 |doi=10.2307/3769067 |jstor=3769067 |issn=0294-1759|url-access=subscription }}</ref> It was a pioneer in the emergence and development of political science as an academic field in France.<ref name=":0" /> Following [[World War II]], the school was nationalized and re-established as a public institution.<ref name="ReferenceA" /> As of 2021, 80% of Sciences Po graduates are employed in the private sector.<ref name="Adenor">{{Cite web |last=Adenor |first=Jean-Loup |date=3 December 2021 |title=Pantouflage : le conseil décomplexé du directeur de Sciences Po à ses étudiants |url=https://www.marianne.net/societe/education/pantouflage-le-conseil-decomplexe-du-directeur-de-sciences-po-a-ses-etudiants |access-date=25 April 2022 |website=www.marianne.net |language=fr |archive-date=15 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220115001059/https://www.marianne.net/societe/education/pantouflage-le-conseil-decomplexe-du-directeur-de-sciences-po-a-ses-etudiants |url-status=live}}</ref>

Sciences Po Paris is the only Institute of Political Sciences in France allowed to refer to itself with the epithet "Sciences Po" without indicating the name of the city where their headquarters are located, under a legal agreement with the other institutes.<ref name="Chillaud">{{Cite journal |last=Chillaud |first=Matthieu |date=October 2014 |title=IR in France: state and costs of a disciplinary variety |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/review-of-international-studies/article/abs/ir-in-france-state-and-costs-of-a-disciplinary-variety/38E758934BDBBEF22730F9BC4A30B4C7 |journal=Review of International Studies |language=en |volume=40 |issue=4 |pages=803–824 |doi=10.1017/S0260210513000521 |s2cid=145486611 |issn=0260-2105 |access-date=23 June 2023 |archive-date=23 June 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230623211513/https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/review-of-international-studies/article/abs/ir-in-france-state-and-costs-of-a-disciplinary-variety/38E758934BDBBEF22730F9BC4A30B4C7 |url-status=live|url-access=subscription }}</ref> They are allowed to use the term "Sciences Po" to refer to themselves only when followed by the names of the cities where they are located, such as "[[Sciences Po Lille]]" or "[[Sciences Po Grenoble]]".<ref>{{Cite web |last=figaro |first=le |date=2 February 2015 |title=L'utilisation du nom "Sciences Po" est désormais réglementée |url=https://etudiant.lefigaro.fr/les-news/actu/detail/article/l-utilisation-du-nom-sciences-po-est-desormais-reglementee-10963/ |access-date=20 July 2023 |website=Le Figaro Etudiant |language=fr |archive-date=23 June 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230623211514/https://etudiant.lefigaro.fr/les-news/actu/detail/article/l-utilisation-du-nom-sciences-po-est-desormais-reglementee-10963/ |url-status=live}}</ref>

The institute is a member of the [[Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs]] and [[The European University of Social Sciences]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Science |first=London School of Economics and Political |title=CIVICA gets greenlight from the European Commission |url=https://www.lse.ac.uk/about-lse/civica/civica-continues-expansion.aspx |access-date=17 August 2022 |website=London School of Economics and Political Science |language=en-GB}}</ref>

==History==
=== 1872 to 1945: Free School of Political Sciences ===
[[File:Émile Boutmy.jpg|thumb|right|250px|[[Émile Boutmy]], Sciences Po founder]]
Sciences Po was established in December 1871<ref name=":10">{{cite book |date=2022 |first1=Marie |isbn=978-2-7246-3915-5 |last1=Scot |publisher=Sciences Po, les presses |title=Sciences Po, le roman vrai}}<!-- auto-translated from French by Module:CS1 translator --></ref>{{efn|While the school's statutes were registered by a notary in December 1871, the school opened in 1872.}} as the ''École libre des sciences politiques'' (ELSP) by a group of French intellectuals, politicians and businessmen led by [[Émile Boutmy]], including [[Hippolyte Taine]], [[Ernest Renan]], [[Albert Sorel]] and [[Pierre Paul Leroy-Beaulieu|Paul Leroy Beaulieu]].<ref name=":1">{{cite book |date=2013 |first1=François |first2=Renaud |isbn=978-2-84337-698-6 |last1=Leblond |last2=Leblond |publisher=A. Carrière |title=Émile Boutmy, le père de Science Po}}<!-- auto-translated from French by Module:CS1 translator --></ref> The creation of the school was in response to widespread fears that the inadequacy of the education of the French political elite corps would diminish the country's international stature, as France grappled with a series of crises, including its defeat in the 1870 [[Franco-Prussian War]],<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.nouvelobs.com/education/20130114.OBS5306/emile-boutmy-l-inventeur-de-sciences-po-modele-du-defunt-richard-descoings.html |title=Emile Boutmy, l'inventeur de Sciences Po, modèle du défunt Richard Descoings |website=L'Obs |date=14 January 2013 |access-date=11 January 2021 |archive-date=21 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210121121916/https://www.nouvelobs.com/education/20130114.OBS5306/emile-boutmy-l-inventeur-de-sciences-po-modele-du-defunt-richard-descoings.html |url-status=live}}</ref> the demise of [[Napoleon III]]'s [[Second French Empire|regime]], and the upheaval and massacre resulting from the [[Paris Commune]]. The founders of the school sought to reform the training of the French political and economic elite by establishing a new "breeding ground where nearly all the major, non-technical state commissioners were trained."<ref name="purpose">{{cite web |url=http://chevs.sciences-po.fr/archives/fonds/sciences_po_2_en.htm |title=Sciences Po Institut d'études politiques Fondation nationale des sciences politiques 1945-1979 |website=Centre d’histoire de Sciences Po |access-date=21 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051012215250/http://chevs.sciences-po.fr/archives/fonds/sciences_po_2_en.htm |archive-date=12 October 2005}}</ref> His innovative intellectual axis was to teach contemporary history, whereas political elites had only been taught ancient humanities for centuries, which they could still learn in universities at the same time.<ref name="monde-diplomatique.fr">{{cite web |last=Garrigou |first=Alain |date=March 1999 |title=Sciences-Po, laminoir des élites françaises |url=https://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/1999/03/GARRIGOU/2830 |access-date=21 February 2022 |website=Le Monde diplomatique |language=French |archive-date=8 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210508000249/https://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/1999/03/GARRIGOU/2830 |url-status=live}}</ref>

The ''École'' acquired a major role in [[Politics of France|France's political system]]. From 1901 to 1935, 92.5% of entrants to the ''[[Grands corps de l'État]]'', the most powerful and prestigious administrative bodies in the [[French Civil Service]], had studied there (this figure includes people who took civil service examination preparatory classes at Sciences Po but did not earn a degree and, in general, students were taking classes there on top of earning a degree at the [[University of Paris]], in particular the Law Faculty).<ref>{{cite book |last1=Nord |first1=Philip |title=The Jacobin Legacy in Modern France: Essays in Honour of Vincent Wright |date=2002 |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |location=Oxford |isbn=9780199256464 |page=116 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rCfPBj-7g2IC&q=Reform,+Conservation+and+Adaptation:+Sciences+Po,+from+the+Popular+Front+to+the+Liberation&pg=PA115 |access-date=30 May 2017 |archive-date=9 April 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220409131955/https://books.google.com/books?id=rCfPBj-7g2IC&q=Reform,+Conservation+and+Adaptation:+Sciences+Po,+from+the+Popular+Front+to+the+Liberation&pg=PA115 |url-status=live}}</ref>

Other countries created similar schools in the following century. In 1875, the {{ill|Istituto Cesare Alfieri|it}} in Italy (now part of the [[University of Florence]]), at the end of the century, the ''École libre des sciences Politiques et Sociales'' in Belgium (not existing any more), the [[Deutsche Hochschule für Politik]] in Germany, the Columbia School of Political Science (now merged into the [[Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences]]), the [[London School of Economics]] in the United Kingdom,<ref name=Dahrendorf>{{cite book |title=LSE: A History of the London School of Economics and Political Science, 1895–1995 |publisher=Oxford University Press |date=1 June 1995 |page=73 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WxC2AAAAIAAJ&q=Paris |access-date=11 August 2018 |isbn=9780198202400 |archive-date=7 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200607150837/https://books.google.com/books?id=WxC2AAAAIAAJ&q=Paris |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |title=Socialisme et sciences sociales : Sidney Webb et la création de la London School of Economics |last=Page |first=Arnaud |website=OpenEdition Journals}}</ref> and, after [[WW1]], for the [[School of Foreign Service]] from [[Georgetown University]] in the United States and the [[Geneva Graduate Institute]] in Switzerland.<ref name=":3">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pDNYDwAAQBAJ&dq=%22sciences+po%22+%22london+school+of+economics%22&pg=PT300 |title=Sciences po: Histoire d'une réussite |first1=Gérard |last1=Vincent |first2=Anne-Marie |last2=Dethomas |date=January 1987 |publisher=Plon |isbn=9782259260770 |access-date=22 February 2022 |archive-date=9 April 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220409131956/https://books.google.com/books?id=pDNYDwAAQBAJ&dq=%22sciences+po%22+%22london+school+of+economics%22&pg=PT300 |url-status=live}}</ref>

[[File:Étudiants et personnel de Sciences Po devant l'entrée en 1910.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Students and staff in front of the original entrance in the 1910s]]
The connection between Sciences Po and French institutions meant that the school also played a key role in the apparatus of the French colonial empires. In 1886, the university established a colonial studies program with the goal of training students to take on professions in the colonial administration in a way that "propagates [...] a more scientific and international colonialism".<ref>{{Cite web |title=Former une élite coloniale à l'aube du XXe siècle {{!}} SciencesPo - Dossiers documentaires |url=http://dossiers-bibliotheque.sciencespo.fr/sciences-po-une-histoire-coloniale/former-une-elite-coloniale-laube-du-xxe-siecle |access-date=24 August 2020 |website=dossiers-bibliotheque.sciencespo.fr |archive-date=2 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201002183341/http://dossiers-bibliotheque.sciencespo.fr/sciences-po-une-histoire-coloniale/former-une-elite-coloniale-laube-du-xxe-siecle |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=1886-1887 : Programme de l'Ecole libre des sciences politiques : Ecole libre des sciences politiques (Paris) : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming |url=https://archive.org/details/FNSPMA13HI21 |access-date=24 August 2020 |website=Internet Archive |year=1886 |language=en}}</ref> Many professors and members of the ELSP administration, such as [[Pierre Paul Leroy-Beaulieu|Paul Leroy-Beaulieu]], chair in colonial affairs at ELSP, [[Joseph Chailley|Joseph Chailley-Bert]], [[Jules Cambon]], [[Charles Jonnart]], [[Auguste-Louis-Albéric, prince d'Arenberg|Auguste Louis Albéric d’Arenberg]] and [[Ernest Roume]], were also closely linked to or worked directly with the colonial government.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Une vision libérale de la colonisation {{!}} SciencesPo - Dossiers documentaires |url=http://dossiers-bibliotheque.sciencespo.fr/sciences-po-une-histoire-coloniale/une-vision-liberale-de-la-colonisation#toc-l-enseignement-colonial-sciences-po |access-date=24 August 2020 |website=dossiers-bibliotheque.sciencespo.fr |archive-date=2 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201002161204/http://dossiers-bibliotheque.sciencespo.fr/sciences-po-une-histoire-coloniale/une-vision-liberale-de-la-colonisation#toc-l-enseignement-colonial-sciences-po |url-status=live}}</ref> The colonial branch of ELSP closed in 1893 after a state-sponsored [[Colonial School, Paris|Colonial School]] was created in 1889; however positions in the administrations of French colonies and protectorates continued to accept graduates from the ELSP.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Former une élite coloniale à l'aube du XXe siècle {{!}} SciencesPo - Dossiers documentaires |url=http://dossiers-bibliotheque.sciencespo.fr/sciences-po-une-histoire-coloniale/former-une-elite-coloniale-laube-du-xxe-siecle#toc-la-concurrence-de-l-cole-coloniale |access-date=24 August 2020 |website=dossiers-bibliotheque.sciencespo.fr |archive-date=2 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201002183341/http://dossiers-bibliotheque.sciencespo.fr/sciences-po-une-histoire-coloniale/former-une-elite-coloniale-laube-du-xxe-siecle#toc-la-concurrence-de-l-cole-coloniale |url-status=live}}</ref>

=== 1945: Refoundation ===
Sciences Po underwent significant reforms in the aftermath of [[World War II]] in 1945. At [[Liberation of Paris|France's liberation]] from [[German military administration in occupied France during World War II|Nazi occupation]], the public servants were accused of collaborating with the [[Vichy regime]] and [[Nazi Germany]]<ref name="ReferenceA">{{cite web |url=https://www.sciencespo.fr/stories/frise/de-l-ecole-libre-a-sciences-po |title=1945: From the École libre to Sciences Po |website=Sciences Po Stories |access-date=7 August 2024 |archive-date=27 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220527191209/https://www.sciencespo.fr/stories/frise/de-l-ecole-libre-a-sciences-po |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150813084954/http://www.charles-de-gaulle.com/the-stateman/the-modernisation-of-the-country/reform-of-the-civil-service.html |url=http://www.charles-de-gaulle.com/the-stateman/the-modernisation-of-the-country/reform-of-the-civil-service.html |title=Reform of the civil service |archive-date=13 August 2015}}</ref> Communist politicians including [[Georges Cogniot]] accused the school to be the "home of collaboration" with Nazi Germany<ref name="ReferenceA"/> and proposed abolishing the ELSP entirely and founding a new state-run administration college on its premises.<ref name=":3" /><ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rCfPBj-7g2IC&q=Reform,+Conservation+and+Adaptation:+Sciences+Po,+from+the+Popular+Front+to+the+Liberation&pg=PA115 |title=The Jacobin Legacy in Modern France: Essays in Honour of Vincent Wright |date=2002 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=9780199256464 |location=Oxford |page=138 |last1=Nord |first1=Philip |access-date=20 October 2020 |archive-date=9 April 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220409131955/https://books.google.com/books?id=rCfPBj-7g2IC&q=Reform,+Conservation+and+Adaptation:+Sciences+Po,+from+the+Popular+Front+to+the+Liberation&pg=PA115 |url-status=live}}</ref> The school, however, had also trained eight out of the thirteen ministers of the [[Provisional Government of the French Republic]], and several prominent members of the [[French Resistance]].<ref name=":2">{{Cite book |last=Dejean |first=Mathieu |title=Sciences po, l'école de la domination |date=2023 |publisher=La Fabrique éditions |isbn=978-2-35872-253-7 |location=Paris}}</ref> In order for the school not to be replaced, the director Roger Seydoux, his aid Jacques Chapsal and the school's most famous professor, André Siegfried, excluded those among the school's staff who were most compromised with the Vichy regime and Nazi Germany, and defended the school against accusation of collaboration and built up a communication campaign to save the school.<ref name="ReferenceA"/>

The choice regarding the future of the school would be made by France's Provisional Government, under [[Charles de Gaulle]]. The alumni [[Michel Debré]], [[Jules Jeanneney]] and Roger Grégoire decided that the school would be preserved but transformed in a new structure. Two separate legal entities were created: the ''Institut d'études politiques'' (English: Institute of political studies) and the ''Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques'' ({{langx|en|National Foundation of Political Science}}) or FNSP. Both were tasked by the French government to ensure "the progress and the spread, both within and outside France, of political science, economics, and sociology".<ref name="purpose" /> The FNSP, a private foundation, manages the ''IEP de Paris'', owns its buildings and libraries, and determines its budget. The two entities work together in lockstep, however, as the director of the school is, by tradition, also the administrator of FNSP. This institutional arrangement gives Sciences Po a unique status, as the school draws most of its resources through substantial government subsidies to FNSP, but does not subject it to many government interventions and regulations, giving it a much higher level of autonomy compared to other French universities and schools.<ref name="ReferenceA"/> The epithet ''Sciences Po'' is applied to both entities, which inherited the reputation previously vested in ''ELSP''.<ref name="duality">"Le statut juridique de Sciences Po: la dualité FNSP et IEP de Paris" ''[http://www.sciences-po.fr/presse/sciencespo_infos/cc/txt_1.htm Centre d'histoire de Sciences Po] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040620154019/http://www.sciences-po.fr/presse/sciencespo_infos/cc/txt_1.htm |date=20 June 2004 }}''</ref>

The public-private nature of Sciences Po, Paris, also distinguishes it from a network of [[Institut d'études politiques|institutes of political studies]] throughout the country that were inspired by its curriculum, namely in [[Institut d'études politiques de Strasbourg|Strasbourg]], [[Institut d'études politiques de Lyon|Lyon]], [[Sciences Po Aix|Aix]], [[Institut d'études politiques de Bordeaux|Bordeaux]], [[Grenoble Institute of Political Studies|Grenoble]], [[Institut d'études politiques de Toulouse|Toulouse]], [[Institut d'études politiques de Rennes|Rennes]] and [[Sciences Po Lille|Lille]]. They are not to be confused with the seven campuses of Sciences Po in France.

The government also established in 1945 the [[École Nationale d'Administration]] (ENA), an elite postgraduate school for training government officials. From then on, the Grands Corps de l'Etat were obliged to recruit new entrants from ENA.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rCfPBj-7g2IC&q=Reform,+Conservation+and+Adaptation:+Sciences+Po,+from+the+Popular+Front+to+the+Liberation&pg=PA115 |title=The Jacobin Legacy in Modern France: Essays in Honour of Vincent Wright |date=2002 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=9780199256464 |location=Oxford |page=141 |last1=Nord |first1=Philip |access-date=20 October 2020 |archive-date=9 April 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220409131955/https://books.google.com/books?id=rCfPBj-7g2IC&q=Reform,+Conservation+and+Adaptation:+Sciences+Po,+from+the+Popular+Front+to+the+Liberation&pg=PA115 |url-status=live}}</ref> Sciences Po became the school of choice for those hoping to enter the ENA, and so retained its dominant place in educating high-ranking officials.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tntEAgAAQBAJ&q=International+Dictionary+of+University+Histories+ecole+nationale&pg=PA146 |title=International Dictionary of University Histories |date=1998 |publisher=Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers |isbn=9781134262175 |location=Chicago |page=147 |last1=Devine, Summerfield |access-date=29 May 2017 |archive-date=9 April 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220409132010/https://books.google.com/books?id=tntEAgAAQBAJ&q=International+Dictionary+of+University+Histories+ecole+nationale&pg=PA146 |url-status=live}}</ref>

=== 1945 to 1996: The Chapsal-Gentot-Lancelot era ===
From 1947 to 1979, Sciences Po is directed by [[Jacques Chapsal]], who replaced his mentor Roger Seydoux and led the school through the [[Trente Glorieuses]] expansion as well as the [[May 68]] crisis. Under Chapsal, Sciences Po expands geographically. After the acquisition of the ''Hôtel de La Meilleraye'' (56–58, rue des Saints-Pères), just across Sciences Po's lawn, the school bought the ''hôtel de La Bretesche'' at number 30, rue Saint-Guillaume, just in front of the main building.<ref name=":3" /> In 1976, the ''Presses de Sciences Po'' (Sciences Po's publishing company) is created.<ref name=":3" />

In 1956, Sciences Po created its first PhD program. The CEVIPOF, Center for Political Research, is created in 1960.<ref name=":3" />

Between 1952 and 1969, 77.5% of the ENA's graduate student intake were Sciences Po alumni.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Nord |first1=Philip |title=The Jacobin Legacy in Modern France: Essays in Honour of Vincent Wright |date=2002 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |isbn=9780199256464 |page=117 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rCfPBj-7g2IC&q=Reform,+Conservation+and+Adaptation:+Sciences+Po,+from+the+Popular+Front+to+the+Liberation&pg=PA115 |access-date=20 October 2020 |archive-date=9 April 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220409131955/https://books.google.com/books?id=rCfPBj-7g2IC&q=Reform,+Conservation+and+Adaptation:+Sciences+Po,+from+the+Popular+Front+to+the+Liberation&pg=PA115 |url-status=live}}</ref>

''FNSP'' received a significant donations from the [[Rockefeller Foundation]]. ''FNSP'' published periodicals such as ''la Revue française de science politique'', ''le Bulletin analytique de documentation'', ''la Chronologie politique africaine'', and the ''Cahiers de la Fondation'' as well as its seven research centres and main publishing house, ''Presses de Sciences Po''.<ref name="purpose" />

=== 1996 to 2012: The Descoings era ===

Political science professor Alain Lancelot led the school between 1987 and 1997. He prepared for the school's vice-director, Richard Descoings, to become the director of Sciences Po.<ref name="LM-2021-01-08">{{Cite news |date=8 January 2021 |title=Sciences Po, cœur du pouvoir d'Olivier Duhamel |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2021/01/08/sciences-po-c-ur-du-pouvoir-d-olivier-duhamel-ebranle-par-sa-chute_6065551_3224.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210306192856/https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2021/01/08/sciences-po-c-ur-du-pouvoir-d-olivier-duhamel-ebranle-par-sa-chute_6065551_3224.html |archive-date=6 March 2021 |access-date=8 January 2021 |newspaper=Le Monde.fr |via=Le Monde}}</ref> Under the directorship of Descoings, the school incorporated courses in various branches of the social sciences on top of political science, such as law, economics, history, and sociology. In addition, the school began requiring all its undergraduate students to spend a year abroad, and introduced a multilingual curriculum in French, English,<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2014/10/29/7-countries-where-americans-can-study-at-universities-in-english-for-free-or-almost-free/ |title=7 countries where Americans can study at universities, in English, for free (or almost free) |last=Noack |first=Rick |date=29 October 2014 |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=5 October 2017 |issn=0190-8286 |archive-date=16 November 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171116134955/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2014/10/29/7-countries-where-americans-can-study-at-universities-in-english-for-free-or-almost-free/ |url-status=live}}</ref> and other languages. Sciences Po also began to expand outside Paris, establishing regional campuses throughout France.<ref name=":10" />

During this period, Sciences Po also implemented reforms in its admissions process. Previously, Sciences Po recruited its students exclusively on the basis of a competitive examination. This system was seen to favor students from prestigious high schools. In 2001, Sciences Po founded the Equal Opportunity Program, widening its admissions policy.<ref name=NYUsource>"Sciences Po ― an elite institution's introspection on its power, position and worth in French society" ''NYU Department of Journalism'', 9 September 2003.</ref> This program enables the institution to recruit high-potential students at partner high schools in more disadvantaged parts of France who, due to a social, academic, and financial constraints, would not otherwise have been able to attend Sciences Po.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.chronicle.com/blogs/innovations/an-affirmative-action-success/30333 |title=An Affirmative-Action Success |last=Kahlenberg |first=Richard D. |date=13 September 2011 |website=The Chronicle of Higher Education Blogs: Innovations |access-date=5 October 2017 |archive-date=10 July 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150710011431/http://chronicle.com/blogs/innovations/an-affirmative-action-success/30333 |url-status=live}}</ref> As a consequence, from 2001 to 2011, the proportion of scholarship students at Sciences Po went from 6 to 27 percent<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/05/world/europe/05iht-educLede05.html |title=In France, a Bastion of Privilege No More |date=4 September 2011 |work=The New York Times |access-date=5 October 2017 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=21 February 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170221010804/http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/05/world/europe/05iht-educLede05.html |url-status=live}}</ref> with around 30% of all students at Sciences Po currently receiving some form of scholarship.<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.lemonde.fr/campus/article/2015/01/16/sciences-po-paris-moins-de-candidats-mais-un-recrutement-plus-diversifie_4558138_4401467.html |title=Sciences Po Paris : 64% des admis viennent de province |last=Maillard |first=Benoît Floc'h et Matteo |date=16 January 2015 |work=Le Monde |access-date=9 October 2017 |language=fr |issn=1950-6244 |archive-date=6 October 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171006022330/http://www.lemonde.fr/campus/article/2015/01/16/sciences-po-paris-moins-de-candidats-mais-un-recrutement-plus-diversifie_4558138_4401467.html |url-status=live}}</ref>

The reforms Descoings spearheaded were at times controversial and his leadership style came under heavy criticism.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/france/111009/sciences-po-bienvenue-la-cour-du-roi-richard |title=Sciences-Po: bienvenue à la Cour du roi Richard! |first=Jade |last=Lindgaard |website=Mediapart |date=13 October 2009 |access-date=26 April 2017 |archive-date=27 April 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170427101625/https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/france/111009/sciences-po-bienvenue-la-cour-du-roi-richard |url-status=live}}</ref> A further report by the French [[Court of Audit (France)|Court of Audit]] in 2012 severely criticized the financial management of the bonuses and salaries under Descoings.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lefigaro.fr/formation/2012/10/08/09006-20121008ARTFIG00605-sciences-po-la-cour-des-comptes-accable-descoings.php |title=Sciences Po: la Cour des comptes accable Descoigns |date=8 October 2012 |access-date=5 July 2019 |archive-date=5 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190705004121/http://www.lefigaro.fr/formation/2012/10/08/09006-20121008ARTFIG00605-sciences-po-la-cour-des-comptes-accable-descoings.php |url-status=live}}</ref>

=== 2013 to 2024: The Mion-Vicherat directorate ===
After the sudden death of Richard Descoing, [[Frédéric Mion]], was appointed director of Sciences Po on 1 March 2013.<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.lemonde.fr/enseignement-superieur/article/2013/03/02/un-pur-produit-de-l-elite-francaise-pour-sciences-po_1841735_1473692.html |title=Un pur produit de l'élite française pour Sciences Po |last=Brafman |first=Nathalie |date=2 March 2013 |work=Le Monde |access-date=21 June 2017 |language=fr |issn=1950-6244 |archive-date=29 July 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170729224622/http://www.lemonde.fr/enseignement-superieur/article/2013/03/02/un-pur-produit-de-l-elite-francaise-pour-sciences-po_1841735_1473692.html |url-status=live}}</ref> Mion's intention to pursue Sciences Po's development as a "selective university of international standing" is detailed in the policy paper "Sciences Po 2022", published in the spring of 2014.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2018-01-19 |title=Frédéric Mion invente le Sciences Po de 2022 |url=https://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/2018/01/19/01016-20180119ARTFIG00087-frederic-mion-invente-le-science-po-de-2022.php |access-date=2024-09-22 |website=Le Figaro |language=fr}}</ref> He restructured the graduate studies by creating graduate schools, leading to the creation of the School of Public Affairs<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://etudiant.lefigaro.fr/orientation/actus-et-conseils/detail/article/sciences-po-ouvre-une-ecole-des-affaires-publiques-16671/ |title=Sciences Po ouvre une "École des affaires publiques" |work=Le Figaro Etudiant |access-date=21 June 2017 |language=fr |archive-date=10 June 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170610100425/http://etudiant.lefigaro.fr/orientation/actus-et-conseils/detail/article/sciences-po-ouvre-une-ecole-des-affaires-publiques-16671/ |url-status=live}}</ref> and the Urban School in 2015 and the School of Management and Innovation in 2016.<ref>{{Cite news |date=3 October 2016 |title=Sciences Po va ouvrir son "école du management et de l'innovation" |url=http://www.lepoint.fr/societe/sciences-po-va-ouvrir-son-ecole-du-management-et-de-l-innovation-03-10-2016-2073221_23.php |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170809025249/http://www.lepoint.fr/societe/sciences-po-va-ouvrir-son-ecole-du-management-et-de-l-innovation-03-10-2016-2073221_23.php |archive-date=9 August 2017 |access-date=21 June 2017 |work=Le Point |language=fr-FR}}</ref>

In early 2016, Sciences Po updated its governance structure, adopting new statutes for its two constituent bodies: the ''Fondation nationale des sciences politiques'' (FNSP) and the ''Institut d'études politiques de Paris'' (IEP).<ref>{{Citation |title=Décret n° 2015-1829 du 29 décembre 2015 portant approbation des statuts de la Fondation nationale des sciences politiques |date=29 December 2015 |url=https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichTexte.do?cidTexte=JORFTEXT000031740005 |access-date=21 June 2017 |archive-date=8 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170808154557/https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichTexte.do?cidTexte=JORFTEXT000031740005 |url-status=live}}</ref>

In late 2016, Sciences Po acquired a new site, the [[Hôtel de l'Artillerie]] in the 7th arrondissement of Paris to expand its campus.<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.leparisien.fr/paris-75/l-hotel-de-l-artillerie-va-accueillir-le-futur-campus-de-sciences-po-14-05-2017-6948768.php |title=L'hôtel de l'Artillerie va accueillir le futur campus de Sciences-po |date=14 May 2017 |work=Le Parisien |access-date=21 June 2017 |archive-date=18 July 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170718140520/http://www.leparisien.fr/paris-75/l-hotel-de-l-artillerie-va-accueillir-le-futur-campus-de-sciences-po-14-05-2017-6948768.php |url-status=live}}</ref>

In 2021, Sciences Po was hit by the [[#Duhamel scandal|Duhamel scandal]], mainly put forward by the best-seller<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.franceculture.fr/litterature/la-familia-grande-succes-de-librairie |title=La familia grande, livre le plus vendu de la semaine |date=17 January 2021 |access-date=8 May 2021 |archive-date=8 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210508032710/https://www.franceculture.fr/litterature/la-familia-grande-succes-de-librairie |url-status=live}}</ref> book ''La Familia Grande'' and newspaper articles from ''[[Le Monde]]'' and ''[[Nouvel Obs]]'', a [[#Sexual violence|sexual violence scandal one]] and a [[#Governance|succession crisis]]. Olivier Duhamel, director of the National Foundation of Sciences Po, who was accused of [[Rape|raping]] his son, resigned. Frédéric Mion and other members of the board of these institutions resigned.{{citation needed|date=May 2024}}

On 22 November 2021 [[Mathias Vicherat]] assumed office as the new director of Sciences Po.<ref name="ReferenceG">{{Cite web |title=First Interview with our New President |url=https://www.sciencespo.fr/en/news/news/first-interview-with-our-new-director-0/6924 |access-date=29 November 2021 |website=Sciences Po |language=en |archive-date=29 November 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211129203554/https://www.sciencespo.fr/en/news/news/first-interview-with-our-new-director-0/6924 |url-status=live}}</ref> He resigned on March 13, 2024, after being ordered to stand trial on charges of domestic abuse.<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Wiels |first1=Jason |last2=Goury-Laffont |first2=Victor |date=13 March 2024 |title=Elite French university boss resigns amid domestic violence accusations |url=https://www.politico.eu/article/elite-france-university-boss-mathias-vicherat-resigns-domestic-violence-indictment/ |access-date=14 March 2024 |website=[[Politico]] |language=en |archive-date=13 March 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240313170603/https://www.politico.eu/article/elite-france-university-boss-mathias-vicherat-resigns-domestic-violence-indictment/ |url-status=live }}</ref> On March 26, [[Jean Bassères]] was named interim director.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2024-03-26 |title=Sciences Po : après la démission de Mathias Vicherat, Jean Bassères est nommé administrateur provisoire |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2024/03/26/sciences-po-apres-la-demission-de-mathias-vicherat-jean-basseres-est-nomme-administrateur-provisoire_6224220_3224.html |access-date=2024-04-28 |work=Le Monde.fr |language=fr}}</ref>

In April 2024, Sciences Po became one of the [[2024 pro-Palestinian protests at Sciences Po|epicenters]] of French student protests against the [[Gaza war]].<ref>{{Cite news |agency=Agence France-Presse |date=2024-04-30 |title=Paris regional leader suspends Sciences Po funding over Gaza protests |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/30/paris-regional-leader-suspends-sciences-po-funding-over-gaza-protests |access-date=2024-05-01 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>

==Campuses==
Sciences Po has seven campuses in France, with each specialising in different regions of the globe. Every May, at the end of the academic year, all seven campuses come together for the inter-campus ''Collégiades'' ''de Sciences Po'' tournament, also known as the MiniCrit. At the tournament, students represent each campus and compete against one another in arts and athletic competitions. Different events include athletic games such as volleyball and football, as well as artistic competitions such as music and dance.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.sciencespo.fr/college/fr/actualites/collegiades-7-campus-en-competition |website=SciencesPo.fr |title=Collégiades : 7 campus en compétition &#124; Sciences Po Collège universitaire |date=7 June 2017 |access-date=18 July 2019 |archive-date=2 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201002161136/https://www.sciencespo.fr/college/fr/actualites/collegiades-7-campus-en-competition |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sciencespo.fr/en/about/our-campuses |title=Our campuses |publisher=Sciences Po |access-date=6 May 2017 |archive-date=2 May 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170502052835/http://www.sciencespo.fr/en/about/our-campuses |url-status=live}}</ref>

===Paris===
[[File:Entree scpo.jpg|thumb|The entrance to Sciences Po on Rue Saint-Guillaume]]
[[File:Scpo jardin.jpg|thumb|Sciences Po garden, between Rue Saint-Guillaume and Rue des Saints-Pères]]
The Paris campus is spread across several buildings concentrated around the [[Boulevard Saint-Germain]] in the 6th and 7th ''arrondissements''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://blogs.cie.utoronto.ca/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/SciencesPo-map.jpg |title=Le campus |publisher=Sciences Po and University of Toronto |access-date=6 May 2017 |archive-date=6 October 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171006013040/http://blogs.cie.utoronto.ca/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/SciencesPo-map.jpg |url-status=live}}</ref> The historic centre of Sciences Po at 27 rue Saint-Guillaume houses the head office, classrooms and the central library since 1879; it is located in a [[hôtel particulier]] called ''Hôtel de Mortemart''.<ref name=":6">{{cite book |access-date=2024-01-02 |date=1997 |first1=Philippe |isbn=978-2-9511292-0-7 |language=fr |last1=Régibier |publisher=P. Régibier |title=27 rue Saint-Guillaume: petite chronique d'une grande demeure et de ses habitants, d'après des documents inédits |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4mw-AQAAIAAJ}}<!-- auto-translated from French by Module:CS1 translator --></ref> It is also home to Sciences Po's two largest teaching halls, the Amphitheatres Émile Boutmy and Jacques Chapsal. Other buildings include:
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* 117, boulevard Saint-Germain: [[Sciences Po Journalism School|School of Journalism]]
* 199, boulevard Saint-Germain: Doctoral School
* 174 and 224, boulevard Saint-Germain: offices and classrooms
* 13, [[Rue de l'Université (Paris)|rue de l'Université]] / The René Rémond building: [[Sciences Po Law School|Law School]] and administrative offices
* 8, rue Jean-Sébastien-Bach: Urban School
* 28, rue des Saints-Pères: [[Paris School of International Affairs]] (PSIA)
* 56, rue des Saints-Pères: Language Lab, audiovisual service and a cartography workshop.
* 56, rue Jacob: Research Center for History (''Centre d'histoire de Sciences Po'') and International Relations (''Centre d'études et de recherches internationales''){{colend}}

The Paris campus enrolls about 3,000 undergraduate students, almost a third of whom are international exchange students.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.sciencespo.fr/college/en/campus/paris.html |title=Paris campus &#124; Sciences Po Undergraduate College |date=24 February 2017 |access-date=11 April 2020 |archive-date=28 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200928160815/https://www.sciencespo.fr/college/en/campus/paris.html |url-status=live}}</ref>

Sciences Po purchased in 2016 the ''Hôtel de l’Artillerie'', a 17th-century former monastery of 14,000 m<sup>2</sup> located 200 meters from its campus on rue Saint-Guillaume, from the French Ministry of Defense and refurbished the building for a total cost of around 200 million euros.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sciencespo.fr/lh%C3%B4tel-de-lartillerie |title=/ L'Hôtel de l'Artillerie – Sciences Po |website=sciencespo.fr |access-date=8 May 2017 |archive-date=29 April 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170429032441/http://www.sciencespo.fr/lh%C3%B4tel-de-lartillerie |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.vousnousils.fr/2016/06/17/sciences-po-achete-lhotel-de-lartillerie-pour-creer-un-campus-dans-paris-589719 |title=Sciences Po achète l'Hôtel de l'Artillerie pour créer un campus dans Paris » VousNousIls |date=17 June 2016 |access-date=8 May 2017 |archive-date=8 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170808235830/http://www.vousnousils.fr/2016/06/17/sciences-po-achete-lhotel-de-lartillerie-pour-creer-un-campus-dans-paris-589719 |url-status=live}}</ref> The new facility which opened in 2022, hosts 7 graduate schools including School of Public Affairs, [[Paris School of International Affairs]], Law School, Urban School, School of Management and Impact, [[Sciences Po Journalism School|Journalism School]] and the School of Research. It is home to the scientific department and the institute of innovation as well as the Sciences Po's Center for Entrepreneurship.<ref>{{Cite web |date=8 March 2023 |title=Opening of 1, Saint Thomas Campus |url=https://www.sciencespo.fr/nous-soutenir/en/nos_projets/a-shared-home/ |website=Sciences Po |access-date=8 March 2023 |archive-date=8 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230308090728/https://www.sciencespo.fr/nous-soutenir/en/nos_projets/a-shared-home/ |url-status=live}}</ref> It will provide [[social housing]] for 50 to 100 students with need-based aid from the State.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.lesechos.fr/17/06/2016/lesechos.fr/0211041464595_sciences-po-se-dote-d-un-grand-campus-au-coeur-de-paris.htm |title=Sciences Po se dote d'un grand campus au cœur de Paris |date=17 June 2016 |website=Les Échos |location=France |access-date=8 May 2017 |archive-date=24 July 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170724032518/https://www.lesechos.fr/17/06/2016/lesechos.fr/0211041464595_sciences-po-se-dote-d-un-grand-campus-au-coeur-de-paris.htm |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.letudiant.fr/educpros/actualite/l-hotel-de-l-artillerie-future-vitrine-pedagogique-de-sciences-po.html |title=L'hôtel de l'Artillerie, future vitrine pédagogique de Sciences po Paris |website=www.letudiant.fr |date=21 June 2016 |access-date=11 January 2021 |archive-date=8 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201108021630/https://www.letudiant.fr/educpros/actualite/l-hotel-de-l-artillerie-future-vitrine-pedagogique-de-sciences-po.html |url-status=live}}</ref>

=== Dijon ===
Located in the region of Burgundy in a 19th-century building, the Dijon campus was created in 2001.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.sciencespo.fr/college/en/campus/dijon.html |title=Dijon campus &#124; Sciences Po Undergraduate College |date=24 February 2017 |access-date=11 April 2020 |archive-date=2 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201002160229/https://www.sciencespo.fr/college/en/campus/dijon.html |url-status=live}}</ref> The regional specialisation is on the European Union, specifically [[Central and Eastern Europe]], and is taught in French. The elective languages offered are [[Hungarian language|Hungarian]], [[Polish language|Polish]], [[Romanian language|Romanian]], [[Russian language|Russian]] and [[Czech language|Czech]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Dijon Campus |url=https://www.sciencespo.fr/college/en/campus-life/campus/dijon |access-date=26 June 2023 |website=College |language=en |archive-date=19 September 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230919180929/https://www.sciencespo.fr/college/en/campus-life/campus/dijon/ |url-status=live}}</ref>

=== Le Havre ===
Located on the coast of [[Normandy]], [[Le Havre]] has hosted the undergraduate Euro-Asian Programme (taught in English) since 2007.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.sciencespo.fr/college/en/campus/le-havre.html |title=Le Havre campus &#124; Sciences Po Undergraduate College |date=24 February 2017 |access-date=11 April 2020 |archive-date=28 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200928154240/https://www.sciencespo.fr/college/en/campus/le-havre.html |url-status=live}}</ref> The elective languages offered are [[Chinese language|Chinese]], [[Japanese language|Japanese]] and [[Korean language|Korean]], and French as a Foreign Language courses for students without a B1-equivalent level.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Le Havre campus |url=https://www.sciencespo.fr/college/en/campus-life/campus/le-havre |access-date=26 June 2023 |website=College |language=en |archive-date=28 June 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230628060220/https://www.sciencespo.fr/college/en/campus-life/campus/le-havre/ |url-status=live}}</ref> Students primarily choose to spend their third year abroad in an Asian country.

=== Menton ===
Established in the [[French Riviera]] city of [[Menton]] in 2005, the campus is located in an entirely renovated 19th-century building overlooking the Mediterranean. According to the Sciences Po brochure, the Menton Campus' regional specialisation is on the Middle Eastern and the Mediterranean, and it welcomes 300 students each year.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.sciencespo.fr/college/en/campus/menton.html |title=Menton campus &#124; Sciences Po Undergraduate College |date=24 February 2017 |access-date=11 April 2020 |archive-date=3 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200803201131/https://www.sciencespo.fr/college/en/campus/menton.html |url-status=live}}</ref> The undergraduate programme is taught through two language tracks (French or English) and several elective languages are offered: [[Arabic]], [[Turkish language|Turkish]], [[Italian language|Italian]], [[Spanish language|Spanish]], [[Persian language|Persian]], [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]], and French as a Foreign Language for those without a CEFR B1-equivalent level in French.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Menton campus |url=https://www.sciencespo.fr/college/en/campus-life/campus/menton |access-date=26 June 2023 |website=College |language=en |archive-date=10 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230710112641/https://www.sciencespo.fr/college/en/campus-life/campus/menton/ |url-status=live}}</ref> The third mandatory year abroad is spent in the Middle East or elsewhere.

=== Nancy ===
Established in the region of [[Lorraine]] in 2000, the Nancy campus is located in an 18th-century heritage site, the Hôtel des Missions Royales. The curriculum is taught in French, English and [[German language|German]], as its regional specialisation focuses on the European Union and French-German relations.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.sciencespo.fr/college/en/campus/nancy.html |title=Nancy campus &#124; Sciences Po Undergraduate College |date=23 February 2017 |access-date=11 April 2020 |archive-date=21 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200621174947/https://www.sciencespo.fr/college/en/campus/nancy.html |url-status=live}}</ref> The elective languages offered are German, English, French as a foreign language and also Italian, Spanish, Russian, Swedish or Arabic.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Nancy campus |url=https://www.sciencespo.fr/college/en/campus-life/campus/nancy |access-date=26 June 2023 |website=College |language=en |archive-date=19 September 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230919180929/https://www.sciencespo.fr/college/en/campus-life/campus/nancy/ |url-status=live}}</ref>

=== Poitiers ===
{{See also|Poitiers Campus, Sciences Po}}
Opened in 2010, the campus is located in the heart of the historic city of [[Poitiers]] in the Hôtel Chaboureau, a renovated building dating from the 15th century. The regional specialisation is on [[Latin America]] and the [[Iberian Peninsula]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.sciencespo.fr/college/en/campus/poitiers.html |title=Poitiers campus &#124; Sciences Po Undergraduate College |date=24 February 2017 |access-date=11 April 2020 |archive-date=10 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200810223454/https://www.sciencespo.fr/college/en/campus/poitiers.html |url-status=live}}</ref> The undergraduate programme is conducted mainly in French, with some courses in English and Spanish.<ref name="Poitiers campus">{{Cite web |title=Poitiers campus |url=https://www.sciencespo.fr/college/en/campus-life/campus/poitiers |access-date=26 June 2023 |website=College |language=en |archive-date=19 September 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230919180927/https://www.sciencespo.fr/college/en/campus-life/campus/poitiers/ |url-status=live}}</ref> The elective languages offered are Spanish and [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]].<ref name="Poitiers campus"/>

=== Reims ===
The [[Reims]] campus opened in September 2010.  It is housed in the 17th century ''[[Jesuit College of Reims|College des Jesuits]]''. Despite being the most recent campus, it is the largest of the regional campuses of Sciences Po, with over 1,600 undergraduates.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.sciencespo.fr/college/en/campus/reims.html |title=Reims campus &#124; Sciences Po Undergraduate College |date=24 February 2017 |access-date=11 April 2020 |archive-date=28 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200928154424/https://www.sciencespo.fr/college/en/campus/reims.html |url-status=live}}</ref> Over half of their students are international.[https://www.sciencespo.fr/college/en/campus-life/campus/reims] The campus offers two regional specialisations, one on North America (taught in English) and the other on Africa (taught in French).<ref name="Reims campus">{{Cite web |title=Reims campus |url=https://www.sciencespo.fr/college/en/campus-life/campus/reims |access-date=26 June 2023 |website=College |language=en |archive-date=28 June 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230628092544/https://www.sciencespo.fr/college/en/campus-life/campus/reims/ |url-status=live}}</ref> Additionally, through a partnership with the [[University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne|University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne (URCA)]], the Reims Campus offers a dual degree in social sciences & humanities and life sciences entitled "Environment, Society, Sustainability." The elective languages offered are English, Spanish, German, Italian or Arabic, and French as a foreign language for students who do not have a B1 level of French.<ref name="Reims campus"/>

== Organisation ==

=== Governance ===
Sciences Po operates under a dual governance model composed of two entities: the ''Fondation nationale des sciences politiques'' (FNSP), a [[Non-profit foundation|private non-profit foundation]], and the ''Institut d’études politiques de Paris'' or Paris Institute of Political Studies, a [[Public university|public higher education institution]]. These two bodies constitute Sciences Po, which is the official term used to designate them collectively.

The FNSP is responsible for the strategic direction and administrative and financial management of Sciences Po. It is administered by a board of directors.<ref>{{Cite web |title=La Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques |url=https://www.sciencespo.fr/fr/a-propos/gouvernance-budget/fnsp |access-date=30 November 2022 |website=Sciences Po |language=fr |archive-date=30 November 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221130225733/https://www.sciencespo.fr/fr/a-propos/gouvernance-budget/fnsp/ |url-status=live}}</ref>

The role of the Paris Institute of Political Studies is to ensure teaching, research and library services, like all international research universities. Its governing bodies consist of the Board of Directors, the Student Life and Education Committee and the Academic Board.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Institut d'études politiques de Paris |url=https://www.sciencespo.fr/fr/a-propos/gouvernance-budget/institut-detudes-politiques-de-paris |access-date=30 November 2022 |website=Sciences Po |language=fr |archive-date=30 November 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221130225733/https://www.sciencespo.fr/fr/a-propos/gouvernance-budget/institut-detudes-politiques-de-paris/ |url-status=live}}</ref>

The executive committee is the institution's operational steering committee. It brings together the directors of Sciences Po's various divisions and offices under the authority of the President of Sciences Po. The executive committee implements the strategic direction and makes operational decisions on running and managing the institution.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Gouvernance & budget |url=https://www.sciencespo.fr/fr/a-propos/gouvernance-budget |access-date=30 November 2022 |website=Sciences Po |language=fr |archive-date=30 November 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221130225734/https://www.sciencespo.fr/fr/a-propos/gouvernance-budget/ |url-status=live}}</ref>

=== Finances ===
Sciences Po's own resources have grown significantly. They have been multiplied by six: from €18.3 million in 2000 to €127.2 million in 2018. These resources now account for a majority of the budget.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sciences Po : quel budget pour quelle(s) vision(s) ? |url=https://www.lapeniche.net/sciencespo_budget_vision/ |access-date=30 November 2022 |website=La Péniche |language=fr-FR |archive-date=30 November 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221130225653/https://www.lapeniche.net/sciencespo_budget_vision/ |url-status=live}}</ref>

The school's development under Richard Descoings led it to contract a €68 million debt by 2010.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Sayare |first=Scott |date=2013-01-16 |title=Paris University Scandal Clouds Esteemed Past |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/16/world/europe/sciences-pos-future-cloudy-after-leaders-death.html |access-date=2024-05-01 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> The institution took on a debt of €191 million in 2016 in order to fund the acquisition of its new Paris campus and undertake the restoration of the site. This debt is partially guaranteed by the [[Mayor of Paris|Paris City Council]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Mérieux |first=Alice |date=28 January 2022 |title=Comment Sciences Po va payer son prestigieux nouveau campus? |url=https://www.challenges.fr/emploi/formation/le-luxueux-nouveau-campus-de-sciences-po-met-en-tension-son-modele-economique_798243 |access-date=30 November 2022 |website=Challenges |language=fr |archive-date=30 November 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221130225655/https://www.challenges.fr/emploi/formation/le-luxueux-nouveau-campus-de-sciences-po-met-en-tension-son-modele-economique_798243 |url-status=live}}</ref>

==Education==
[[File:Certificat de diplôme de l’Institut d’études politiques de Paris.png|thumb|Diploma certificate from Sciences Po Paris (1952)]]
The academic bodies of Sciences Po consist of the Undergraduate College, six professional schools, and the Doctoral School.

=== Undergraduate level ===
The Sciences Po Undergraduate College offers a three-year Bachelor of Arts degree with a multidisciplinary foundation in the humanities and social sciences with emphasis on civic, linguistic, artistic, and digital training.<ref name="SciPo1">{{Cite web |url=https://www.sciencespo.fr/en/education/undergraduate-studies |title=Undergraduate Studies |website=Sciences Po |access-date=11 January 2021 |archive-date=16 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210116190116/http://www.sciencespo.fr/en/education/undergraduate-studies |url-status=live}}</ref>

In the first year, students take foundational courses in six disciplines - economics, history, humanities, law, political science, and sociology.<ref name="Bachelor of Arts">{{Cite web |title=Bachelor of Arts |url=https://www.sciencespo.fr/college/en/academics/bachelor/ |access-date=27 June 2023 |website=College |language=en |archive-date=27 June 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230627150857/https://www.sciencespo.fr/college/en/academics/bachelor/ |url-status=live}}</ref> In the second year, students choose a multidisciplinary major – Politics & Government, Economics & Societies, or Political Humanities.<ref name="Bachelor of Arts"/> The third year is spent abroad on an exchange programme with a partner university. In addition, each campus offers a different regional specialisation which anchors students' intellectual objectives, the regions are: Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East-Mediterranean, and North America.<ref name="Bachelor of Arts"/>

Sciences Po offers dual bachelor's degrees with [[Columbia University]], [[Keio University]], [[University College London]], [[Freie Universität Berlin]], [[University of British Columbia]], the [[University of Sydney]], the [[National University of Singapore]], the [[University of Hong Kong]], and the [[University of California, Berkeley]].<ref name="SciPo1"/>

The current dean of the Undergraduate College is Jeanne Lazarus.

In 2021, 15,284 students applied to the Undergraduate College across all three admissions pathways (the exam procedure, the Equal Opportunity Programme, and the international procedure). 1,630 students were accepted, for an admission rate of 7%.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.sciencespo.fr/fr/actualites/actualit%C3%A9s/admissions-post-bac-2021-plus-de-15-000-candidatures-validees-sur-parcoursup-0/5500 |title=2021 Post-Baccalaueate Admissions: Who entered Sciences PO via general route on Parcoursup? |website=Sciences Po |access-date=10 May 2022 |archive-date=16 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220516144119/https://www.sciencespo.fr/fr/actualites/actualit%C3%A9s/admissions-post-bac-2021-plus-de-15-000-candidatures-validees-sur-parcoursup-0/5500 |url-status=live}}</ref>
Sciences Po has an acceptance rate of around 10% on Parcoursup (the national admissions platform for higher education) in 2021.<ref>{{Cite news |date=15 October 2022 |title=Inside the mind of a Sciences Po student |language=en |work=Le Monde.fr |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/en/campus/article/2022/10/15/inside-the-mind-of-a-sciences-po-student_6000425_11.html |access-date=23 June 2023 |archive-date=23 June 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230623181112/https://www.lemonde.fr/en/campus/article/2022/10/15/inside-the-mind-of-a-sciences-po-student_6000425_11.html |url-status=live}}</ref>

=== Graduate level ===
At the graduate level, Sciences Po's seven schools offer one- and two-year Master's programmes and PhD programmes. All graduate programmes are delivered on the Sciences Po campus in Paris. Sciences Po also hosts dual Master's programmes with international partners. Students enrolled in these dual degree programmes spend one year at Sciences Po in Paris and one year at the partner university.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.sciencespo.fr/en/education/graduate-studies |title=Graduate Studies |website=Sciences Po |access-date=11 January 2021 |archive-date=26 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210126185813/https://www.sciencespo.fr/en/education/graduate-studies |url-status=live}}</ref>

===Schools===
The Undergraduate College (''Collège universitaire'') is the home of all undergraduate students. At the graduate level, there are seven professional schools:<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sciencespo.fr/en/education/graduate-studies |title=Graduate Studies at Sciences Po |publisher=Sciences Po |access-date=6 May 2017 |archive-date=6 February 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180206172416/http://www.sciencespo.fr/en/education/graduate-studies |url-status=live}}</ref>

{{colbegin}}
* School of Public Affairs
* [[Paris School of International Affairs]]
* [[Sciences Po Law School]]
* Urban School
* School of Management and Innovation
* [[Sciences Po Journalism School]]
* Doctoral School{{colend}}

The Doctoral School offers Master and PhD programmes in law, economics, history, political science, or sociology. The PhD programme contains roughly 600 doctoral candidates.

===Research===

Research at Sciences Po covers economics, law, history, sociology and political science, while also taking in interdisciplinary topics such as cities, political ecology, sustainable development, socio-economics and globalization.

Sciences Po is home to a research community that includes over 200 researchers and 350 PhD candidates.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sciencespo.fr/recherche/en |title=Home – Sciences Po Research |date=3 December 2014 |website=sciencespo.fr |access-date=9 May 2017 |archive-date=2 May 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170502045933/http://www.sciencespo.fr/recherche/en |url-status=live}}</ref> In 2015, 32% of the school's budget was devoted to research. That year, 65% of its research publications were in French, 32% in English and 3% in other languages.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://issuu.com/research-sciences-po/docs/bilan-ds-uk-web |title=Research at Sciences Po in 2015 |website=Issuu |date=21 June 2016 |access-date=9 May 2017 |archive-date=2 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201002131717/https://issuu.com/research-sciences-po/docs/bilan-ds-uk-web |url-status=live}}</ref>

The institute has research centers, seven of which are affiliated with France's National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS).<ref name="sciencespo.fr">{{cite web |url=http://www.sciencespo.fr/recherche/en/content/research-centers |title=Research Centers – Sciences Po Research |date=20 June 2014 |website=sciencespo.fr |access-date=9 May 2017 |archive-date=8 May 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170508204246/http://www.sciencespo.fr/recherche/en/content/research-centers |url-status=live}}</ref>

* Center for Socio-Political Data (CDSP), which provides scientifically validated data for international survey programs. It also supports training in data collection and analysis.
* Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics (CEE), which focuses on inter-disciplinary European studies; participation, democracy and government; election analyses; the restructuring of the state and public action.
* Centre for International Studies (CERI), which produces comparative and historical analysis on foreign societies, international relations, and political, social and economic phenomena.
* Centre for Political Research (CEVIPOF), which investigates political attitudes, behaviour and parties, as well as political thought and the history of ideas.
* Centre for History (CHSP), whose research focuses on: arts, knowledge and culture; wars, conflicts and violence; states, institutions and societies; the political and cultural history of contemporary France; from local to global; international history and its levels.
* Centre for the Sociology of Organisations (CSO), which conducts research on the sociology of organisations, sociology of public policy, and economic sociology. It also studies issues related to higher education and research, healthcare, sustainable development, the evolution of firms, and the transformation of the state.
* Center for Studies in Social Change (OSC), which conducts research on topics such as urban, school and gender inequalities, stratification and social mobility, and ethno-racial or social segregation.
* Department of Economics, which investigates areas such as labour markets, international economics, political economy, microeconomics and development.
* Law School, whose research focuses on globalisation, legal cultures and the economics of law. It has also produced work on the theory and history of law, public and private international law and intellectual property.
* Médialab, which studies the way data generated by new information technologies is produced, circulated and exploited.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ina-expert.com/e-dossier-de-l-audiovisuel-sciences-humaines-et-sociales-et-patrimoine-numerique/medialab-de-sciences-po-cartographier-le-web-pour-les-sciences-sociales.html |title=Médialab de Sciences Po : cartographier le web pour les sciences sociales / E-dossier de l'audiovisuel : sciences humaines et sociales et patrimoine numérique / E-dossiers de l'audiovisuel / Publications / INA Expert – Accueil – Ina |last=INA |website=ina-expert.com |access-date=9 May 2017 |archive-date=19 September 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230919181429/http://inatheque.ina.fr/ |url-status=live}}</ref>
* The [[Observatoire Français des Conjonctures Économiques]] (OFCE), which is both a research centre and an independent economic forecasting body. Its stated mission is to "ensure that the fruits of scientific rigour and academic independence serve the public debate about the economy".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ofce.sciences-po.fr/en/ofce/ofce.php |title=OFCE About... |website=ofce.sciences-po.fr |access-date=9 May 2017 |archive-date=2 May 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170502203114/http://www.ofce.sciences-po.fr/en/ofce/ofce.php |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="sciencespo.fr"/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sciencespo.fr/recherche/en/content/research-units |title=Research Units – Sciences Po Research |date=10 March 2015 |website=sciencespo.fr |access-date=9 May 2017 |archive-date=5 May 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170505230501/http://www.sciencespo.fr/recherche/en/content/research-units |url-status=live}}</ref>

In addition to these research units, the institute has recently established three major research programs – the LIEPP, DIME-SHS and MaxPo.<ref name="sciencespo.fr"/>

*The Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire d'Evaluation des Politiques Publiques (LIEPP) analyzes public policy based on qualitative, comparative, and quantitative methods.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sciencespo.fr/liepp/fr |title=Page d'accueil – Sciences Po liepp |website=sciencespo.fr |access-date=9 May 2017 |archive-date=8 May 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170508213058/http://www.sciencespo.fr/liepp/fr |url-status=live}}</ref> The laboratory has been selected by an international scientific jury as a "Laboratoire d'Excellence" (Labex) that will be financed for the next ten years by the French government.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sciencespo.fr/liepp/en/content/what-liepp |title=What is LIEPP? – Sciences Po liepp |date=23 September 2014 |website=sciencespo.fr |access-date=9 May 2017 |archive-date=10 April 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170410234605/http://www.sciencespo.fr/liepp/en/content/what-liepp |url-status=live}}</ref>
*Données Infrastructures et Méthodes d'Enquête en Sciences Humaines et Sociales (DIME-SHS) aims to collect and disseminate data for use in humanities and social sciences research.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sciencespo.fr/dime-shs/ |title=Page d'accueil – Sciences Po dime-shs |website=sciencespo.fr |access-date=9 May 2017 |archive-date=27 June 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170627042959/http://www.sciencespo.fr/dime-shs/ |url-status=live}}</ref>
*The Max Planck Sciences Po Center on Coping with Instability in Market Societies (known as MaxPo), was founded in 2012 in co-operation with the [[Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies]] (MPIfG). It investigates how individuals, organizations, and nation-states deal with various forms of economic and social instability. It is located at Sciences Po's Paris campus.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.maxpo.eu/center.asp |title=MaxPo – About the Center |website=maxpo.eu |access-date=9 May 2017 |archive-date=11 March 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170311003338/http://www.maxpo.eu/center.asp |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sciencespo.fr/recherche/en/content/crosscuting-programmes |title=Cross-cutting Programmes – Sciences Po Research |date=6 October 2014 |website=sciencespo.fr |access-date=9 May 2017 |archive-date=18 April 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170418202917/http://www.sciencespo.fr/recherche/en/content/crosscuting-programmes |url-status=live}}</ref>

===Library and publishing===

[[File:Salles de lecture 27 rue Saint Guillaume.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Sciences Po Library]]
Founded in 1871, the nucleus of the school's research is the ''Bibliothèque de Sciences Po''. The library offers a collection of more than 950,000 titles in the field of social sciences.

In 1982, the [[Ministry of National Education (France)|Ministry of National Education]] made the ''Bibliothèque'' the Centre for Acquisition and Dissemination of Scientific and Technical Information in the field of [[political science]], and since 1994, it has been the antenna associated with the ''[[Bibliothèque Nationale de France]]''.<ref name=Sciences-Po-Paris>"Sciences Po Paris Overview: Introducing Sciences Po" ''Sciences Po Website'', 2001.</ref> The ''Bibliothèque de Sciences Po'' is also the main French partner in the [[International Bibliography of the Social Sciences]], which is based at the [[London School of Economics]].<ref name=IBSS>"IBSS Boosts Coverage of French Social Science Journals", ''[http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/IBSS/news/pressReleases.htm#Example%20of%20an%20IBSS%20record%20showing%20Sciences%20Po%20data: IBSS] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090524150844/http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/IBSS/news/pressReleases.htm#Example%20of%20an%20IBSS%20record%20showing%20Sciences%20Po%20data: |date=24 May 2009 }}'', 2005.</ref>

Founded in the 1950s, ''Presses de Sciences Po'' is the publishing house of Sciences Po. It publishes academic works related to the [[social sciences]].<ref name=Presses>"Presses de Sciences Po", ''Sciences Po Website'', 21 October 2004.</ref>

===Public lectures===
Sciences Po organizes public lecture events. Recent guest speakers have included [[Ban Ki-moon]], [[David Petraeus|General David Petraeus]], [[Condoleezza Rice]], former President of Brazil [[Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva]], [[Eric Schmidt]], [[Joseph Stiglitz]], [[Sheryl Sandberg]], [[Mario Draghi]], UNESCO Director-General [[Irina Bokova]] and Harvard University professor [[Michael Sandel]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.francealumni.fr/global/gene/link.php?doc_id=1304&fg=1 |title=Sciences Po: France's Leading University in the Social Sciences |access-date=23 May 2017 |archive-date=8 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170808234222/https://www.francealumni.fr/global/gene/link.php?doc_id=1304&fg=1 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sciencespo.fr/public/en/content/justice |title=Justice: A lecture and discussion with Harvard Professor Michael J. Sandel – Sciences Po School of Public Affairs |date=6 April 2016 |website=sciencespo.fr |access-date=23 May 2017 |archive-date=8 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170808234959/http://www.sciencespo.fr/public/en/content/justice |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sciencespo.fr/psia/content/irina-bokova-guest-speaker-psia |title=Irina Bokova – Guest speaker at PSIA – Sciences Po psia |date=7 April 2015 |website=sciencespo.fr |access-date=23 May 2017 |archive-date=8 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170808234128/http://www.sciencespo.fr/psia/content/irina-bokova-guest-speaker-psia |url-status=live}}</ref>

Since 2007 it has organized the Franco-British Dialogue Lecture Series in collaboration with the LSE and the [[Embassy of France, London|French Embassy in London]]. The lectures are held every term at the LSE's European Institute.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lse.ac.uk/intranet/LSEServices/academicPartnerships/academicPartners/LSEandSciencesPo.aspx |title=LSE and Sciences Po – Academic partners – Academic Partnerships – Services and divisions – Staff and students – Home |first=Annette |last=Haas |publisher=London School of Economics |access-date=23 May 2017 |archive-date=1 June 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170601182820/http://www.lse.ac.uk/intranet/LSEServices/academicPartnerships/academicPartners/LSEandSciencesPo.aspx |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Lane |first1=Philippe |title=Franco-British Academic Partnerships: The Next Chapter |date=8 July 2011 |publisher=Liverpool University Press |location=Liverpool |isbn=9781781386569 |page=12 |edition=1 |url=https://liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/products/61809 |access-date=23 May 2017 |archive-date=7 November 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171107014751/https://liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/products/61809 |url-status=live}}</ref>

== Reputation and rankings ==

===National rankings===
Sciences Po has the highest attractivity rate of the French Institutes of political studies, as 86% of students who were admitted to its undergraduate programs accepted their offer.<ref>{{cite web |access-date=2024-03-20 |language=fr |title=Quels sont les Sciences po les plus sélectifs et attractifs ? |url=https://www.letudiant.fr/etudes/iep/quels-sont-les-sciences-po-les-plus-selectifs-et-attractifs.html |website=L'Etudiant}}<!-- auto-translated from French by Module:CS1 translator --></ref> In 2022, the admission rate of the school was 10% as the undergraduate level, and 5% on the Paris campus.<ref name=":4">{{Cite journal|language=fr|author1=Paul-Henri Wallet|title=Sciences Po: quels sont les IEP les plus sélectifs?|periodical=Le Figaro|date=29 December 2022|url=https://etudiant.lefigaro.fr/article/sciences-po-quels-sont-les-iep-les-plus-selectifs_909cfb24-86ba-11ed-8f1c-ba512ce61521/}}.</ref> In 2023, French students who joined the school had scored an average of 17.9/20 at the [[Baccalauréat]].<ref name=":5">{{cite web |access-date=2024-04-24 |date=2024-04-24 |language=fr |title=Quelle moyenne au bac faut-il pour intégrer Sciences Po ? |url=https://etudiant.lefigaro.fr/article/etudes/sciences-po-decouvrez-dans-quels-iep-vont-les-meilleurs-bacheliers-20240424/ |website=Le Figaro Etudiant}}<!-- auto-translated from French by Module:CS1 translator --></ref> 92% of French students admitted to undergraduate programs got their Baccalauréat Summa cum laude ("mention Très bien").<ref name=":5" />

National rankings place the school in first place in sociology, social policy and administration, in second place in development studies and law, and third place in economics.<ref name=":22">{{cite web |access-date=6 March 2020 |date=9 December 2012 |language=en |title=Sciences Po |url=https://www.topuniversities.com/universities/sciences-po/undergrad |website=Top Universities}}<!-- auto-translated from French by Module:CS1 translator -->.</ref>

=== International rankings ===
In rankings based on English-speaking publications, in 2023, Sciences Po ranks 2nd globally for the study of Politics in the QS World University Subjects Rankings,<ref>{{cite web |access-date=2024-04-24 |language=en |title=2024 QS Rankings: Sciences Po Second in the World in "Politics" |url=https://www.sciencespo.fr/en/news/2024-qs-rankings-sciences-po-second-in-the-world-in-politics |website=Sciences Po}}<!-- auto-translated from French by Module:CS1 translator --></ref> whereas it is ranked 39th in social sciences by Times Higher Education{{Citation needed|date=April 2024}}. In 2024, its global ranking in the QS World University Rankings decreased to the 319th rank.<ref name=":23">{{cite web |access-date=6 March 2020 |date=9 December 2012 |language=en |title=Sciences Po |url=https://www.topuniversities.com/universities/sciences-po/undergrad |website=Top Universities}}<!-- auto-translated from French by Module:CS1 translator -->.</ref>

{| class="wikitable"
|+Rankings: International (national)/Total number of ranked institution<ref name="Sciences Po">{{cite web |title=Sciences Po |url=https://www.topuniversities.com/universities/sciences-po/undergrad |website=Top Universities |date=9 December 2012 |access-date=6 March 2020 |archive-date=2 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201002172909/https://www.topuniversities.com/universities/sciences-po/undergrad |url-status=live}}</ref>
!Year
!2014
!2015
!2016
!2017
!2018
!2019
!2020
!2021
!2022
!2023
|-
! colspan="11" |Global and regional rankings
|-
|QS - Global ranking
|214
|222
|223
|220
|220
|221
|242 (7)
|'''242 (7)'''
|261
|259
|-
|THE - Global ranking
|
|
|
|
|401–500
|401–500
|401–500 (19)
|'''501-600 (21)'''
|
|
|-
! colspan="11" |By field
|-
|QS - Social Sciences & Management
| –
| –
| –
|62
|67
|69
|59 (4)
|56 (3)
|
|'''65 (4)'''
|-
|THE - Social Sciences & Management
|
|
|
|
|
|
|69 (2)
|
|
|'''39 (1)'''
|-
|QS - Arts & Humanities
| –
| –
| –
|154
|207
|176
|170 (6)
|'''162 (5)'''
|-
|THE - Arts & Humanities
|
|
|
|
|
|
|'''-/536 (-/20)'''
|-
! colspan="11" |By subject
|-
|QS - Politics
|13
|5
|4
|4
|4
|3
|2
|2 (1)
|3 (1)
|3<ref>{{cite web |access-date=2024-04-24 |language=en |title=2023 QS Rankings: Sciences Po Third in the World in "Politics" |url=https://www.sciencespo.fr/en/news/2023-qs-rankings-sciences-po-third-in-the-world-in-politics |website=Sciences Po}}<!-- auto-translated from French by Module:CS1 translator --></ref>
|-
|QS - Social Policy & Administration
| –
| –
|40
|51–100
|48
|22
|23
|21 (1)
|
|13<ref name=":7">{{cite web |access-date=2024-04-24 |date=2023-03-22 |language=en |title=2023 QS Rankings: Sciences Po Third in the World in "Politics" {{!}} Sciences Po Research |url=https://www.sciencespo.fr/recherche/en/content/qs-2023-sciences-po-still-ranked-3rd-best-university-world-politics-international-studies.html |website=www.sciencespo.fr}}<!-- auto-translated from French by Module:CS1 translator --></ref>
|-
|QS - Sociology
|36
|51–100
|50
|44
|37
|28
|28
|
|
|27<ref name=":72">{{cite web |access-date=2024-04-24 |date=2023-03-22 |language=en |title=2023 QS Rankings: Sciences Po Third in the World in "Politics" {{!}} Sciences Po Research |url=https://www.sciencespo.fr/recherche/en/content/qs-2023-sciences-po-still-ranked-3rd-best-university-world-politics-international-studies.html |website=www.sciencespo.fr}}<!-- auto-translated from French by Module:CS1 translator --></ref>
|-
|QS - Development Studies
| –
|51–100
|51–100
| –
|51–100
|51–100
|40
|
|
|'''51–100'''
|-
|QS - Law & Legal Studies
|51–100
|51–100
|51–100
|51–100
|51–100
|51–100
|50
|
|
|'''65 (2)'''
|-
|THE - Law
|
|
|
|
|
|
|–/190 (–/2)
|
|
|'''–/290 (–/6)'''
|-
|Eduniversal - Law (global)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|'''(–/15)'''
|-
|QS - Economics & Econometrics
|101–150
|101–150
|51–100
|101–150
|101–150
|101–150
|51–100
|
|
|'''89 (6)'''
|-
|THE - Business & Economics
|
|
|
|
|
|
|'''–/632 (–/20)'''
|-
|QS - History
| –
| –
|101–150
|51–100
|51–100
|101–150
|'''101–150'''
|-
|QS - Philosophy
| –
| –
| –
| –
| –
| –
|'''151–200'''
|-
|QS - Modern Languages
| –
|151–200
|201–250
|251–300
|201–250
|201–250
|'''201–250'''
|-
|QS - Accounting & Finance
| –
| –
| –
| –
| –
|201–250
|201–250
|
|
|'''251-300 (10)'''
|}

===Reputation and criticism===

Sciences Po has been called France's "leading university in the social sciences".<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sciences Po |url=https://www.topuniversities.com/universities/sciences-po |access-date=20 June 2023 |website=Top Universities |language=en |archive-date=13 April 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200413002856/https://www.topuniversities.com/universities/sciences-po |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=New Double Degree Programme: Sciences Po - NUS |url=https://sg.ambafrance.org/New-Double-Degree-Programme-Sciences-Po-NUS |access-date=20 June 2023 |website=La France à Singapour |language=en |archive-date=19 September 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230919181450/https://sg.ambafrance.org/New-Double-Degree-Programme-Sciences-Po-NUS |url-status=live}}</ref> It is considered to be the most prestigious of all of the IEP ([[Instituts d'études politiques]], or Institutes of Political Studies) in France.<ref name="Chillaud"/> Sciences Po is widely regarded to be an elite institution due to its selectivity in admissions and its close connections to powerful networks within French society.<ref name="Conley">{{Cite web |url=https://journalism.nyu.edu/publishing/archives/portfolio/conley/sciencespo.html |title=Sciences Po ? an elite institution's introspection on its power, position and worth in French society |last=Conley |first=Marjorie |date=9 September 2003 |website=Portfolio, The Journalism of Ideas |publisher=New York University |access-date=10 August 2016 |archive-date=8 October 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161008054832/https://journalism.nyu.edu/publishing/archives/portfolio/conley/sciencespo.html |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Koh 2016 193">{{Cite book |title=Elite Schools: Multiple Geographies of Privilege |last=Koh |first=Aaron |publisher=Routledge |year=2016 |isbn=978-1--138-77940-2 |location=New York; Oxon |pages=193}}</ref><ref name="Guttenplan">{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/04/world/elite-french-college-tackles-affirmative-action.html |title=In France, a Bastion of Privilege No More |last=Guttenplan |first=D.D. |date=4 May 2001 |work=The New York Times |access-date=10 August 2016 |archive-date=9 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170809043320/http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/04/world/elite-french-college-tackles-affirmative-action.html |url-status=live}}</ref> It has been described as a "school of power" that has inspired schools abroad, such as the London School of Economics.<ref name="monde-diplomatique.fr" /> Because of its role in training the French elite, it has been called the "school of domination".<ref name=":2" /> According "[[Le Monde]]", the school's reputation for excellency and its prestige are such that some freshmen are sometimes "disillusioned" after having "fantasized" about the school.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2019-05-22 |title=Faire Sciences Po, entre fantasme et désillusion |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/campus/article/2019/05/22/faire-sciences-po-entre-fantasme-et-desillusion_5465648_4401467.html |access-date=2024-04-29 |work=Le Monde.fr |language=fr}}</ref>

Because of its role in training the French political, administrative and economic elite, the school has been criticized by [[Far-left politics|far-left]] critics for the alleged close-mindedness of its students.<ref>[https://www.challenges.fr/education/science-po-peine-a-depasser-l-entre-soi_761323] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220307214243/https://www.challenges.fr/education/science-po-peine-a-depasser-l-entre-soi_761323|date=7 March 2022}} Sciences Po peine à dépasser l’entre-soi</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=26 April 2021 |title=Sciences Po, l'enquête inédite (1/3) : malgré le scandale Duhamel, un implacable entre-soi |url=https://www.lexpress.fr/actualite/societe/science-po-l-enquete-inedite-1-3-malgre-le-scandale-duhamel-un-implacable-entre-soi_2149614.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210507201754/https://www.lexpress.fr/actualite/societe/science-po-l-enquete-inedite-1-3-malgre-le-scandale-duhamel-un-implacable-entre-soi_2149614.html |archive-date=7 May 2021 |access-date=8 May 2021}}</ref><ref name="ReferenceI">{{cite web |date=6 October 2022 |title=Le réseau avant le mérite : à Sciences Po, la désillusion des étudiants |url=https://www.lexpress.fr/actualite/societe/le-reseau-avant-le-merite-a-sciences-po-la-desillusion-des-etudiants_2181416.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221007030723/https://www.lexpress.fr/actualite/societe/le-reseau-avant-le-merite-a-sciences-po-la-desillusion-des-etudiants_2181416.html |archive-date=7 October 2022 |access-date=7 October 2022}}</ref><ref name="ReferenceJ">{{cite news |date=5 October 2022 |title=Dans la tête d'un étudiant de Sciences Po |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/campus/article/2022/10/05/marquage-a-gauche-qui-s-accentue-culture-de-la-protestation-dans-la-tete-d-un-etudiant-de-sciences-po_6144428_4401467.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221007030727/https://www.lemonde.fr/campus/article/2022/10/05/marquage-a-gauche-qui-s-accentue-culture-de-la-protestation-dans-la-tete-d-un-etudiant-de-sciences-po_6144428_4401467.html |archive-date=7 October 2022 |access-date=7 October 2022 |newspaper=Le Monde}}</ref> [[Peter Gumbel]] called Sciences Po and other "''Grandes Écoles"'' "elite colleges [which] have become a machine for perpetuating a brilliant but blinkered, often arrogant and frequently incompetent ruling freemasonry".<ref name="Lichfield">{{Cite news |last=Lichfield |first=John |date=17 May 2013 |title=Liberte, inegalite, fraternite: Is French elitism holding the country back? |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/liberte-inegalite-fraternite-is-french-elitism-holding-the-country-back-8621650.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160730064514/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/liberte-inegalite-fraternite-is-french-elitism-holding-the-country-back-8621650.html |archive-date=30 July 2016 |access-date=10 August 2016 |work=The Independent}}</ref>  The academic [[Gilles Devers]] criticized the institution for being the "base of the conservatism, and the mold of the molluscs that make the public elite" where "dissenting ideas are only admitted if they strengthen the system".<ref>{{cite web |date=10 September 2012 |title=Sciences-Pipeau : Plus rentable que de braquer une banque |url=http://lesactualitesdudroit.20minutes-blogs.fr/archive/2012/10/09/sciences-pipeau-plus-rentable-que-de-braquer-une-banque.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121113153736/http://lesactualitesdudroit.20minutes-blogs.fr/archive/2012/10/09/sciences-pipeau-plus-rentable-que-de-braquer-une-banque.html |archive-date=13 November 2012 |access-date=21 February 2022 |website=Actualités du droit |language=fr}}</ref>

Sciences Po's core curriculum has historically been very transdisciplinary, as the students go through introductory classes to disciplines as diverse as political science, economics, history, law and international relations. This priority given to transversality of knowledge over expertise in one field has been the subject of praise as well as of criticism.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MkvfDQAAQBAJ&q=sciences+pipeau&pg=PT544 |title=Sciences Po pour les Nuls |first1=Anne-Sophie |last1=Beauvais |first2=Pascal |last2=Cauchy |date=19 January 2017 |publisher=edi8 |via=Google Books |isbn=9782412024003 |access-date=20 October 2020 |archive-date=7 April 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220407103353/https://books.google.com/books?id=MkvfDQAAQBAJ&q=sciences+pipeau&pg=PT544 |url-status=live}}</ref>

In 2021 Sciences Po was criticized{{by whom|date=May 2024}} for alleged [[grade inflation]] as a means to attract international students.<ref>{{Cite news |date=31 March 2021 |title=Démocratiser le recrutement sans renoncer à l'élitisme, la difficile ligne de crête des Sciences Po |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/education/article/2021/03/31/democratiser-le-recrutement-sans-renoncer-a-l-elitisme-la-difficile-ligne-de-crete-des-sciences-po_6075124_1473685.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210401065708/https://www.lemonde.fr/education/article/2021/03/31/democratiser-le-recrutement-sans-renoncer-a-l-elitisme-la-difficile-ligne-de-crete-des-sciences-po_6075124_1473685.html |archive-date=1 April 2021 |access-date=2 April 2021 |newspaper=Le Monde.fr}}</ref>

==Controversies==

=== Duhamel scandal ===
{{further|Duhamel scandal}}
[[Camille Kouchner]], daughter of [[Bernard Kouchner]], published a book in which she wrote that her step-father Olivier Duhamel, at that time president of the Foundation of Sciences Po which was the "heart of [his] power" for 30 years,<ref name="LM-2021-01-08"/> sexually abused his step-son for two years during his childhood.<ref name="LM-2021-04-01">{{Cite news |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2021/01/04/olivier-duhamel-l-inceste-et-les-enfants-du-silence_6065166_3224.html |title=Olivier Duhamel, l'inceste et les enfants du silence |newspaper=Le Monde.fr |date=4 January 2021 |via=Le Monde |access-date=8 January 2021 |archive-date=6 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210306184821/https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2021/01/04/olivier-duhamel-l-inceste-et-les-enfants-du-silence_6065166_3224.html |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="NYT-2021-01-05">{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/05/world/europe/olivier-duhamel-scandal.html |title=Prominent French Intellectual Steps Down Amid Accusations of Incest |first=Roger |last=Cohen |newspaper=The New York Times |date=5 January 2021 |access-date=8 January 2021 |archive-date=7 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210307075048/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/05/world/europe/olivier-duhamel-scandal.html |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/05/french-political-scientist-olivier-duhamel-accused-of-sexually-abusing-stepson |title=High-profile French political scientist accused of sexually abusing stepson |date=5 January 2021 |website=The Guardian |access-date=11 January 2021 |archive-date=19 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210119092349/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/05/french-political-scientist-olivier-duhamel-accused-of-sexually-abusing-stepson |url-status=live}}</ref> Newspapers further unearthed a series of controversial attitudes{{by whom|date=May 2024}} toward the sexuality of minors.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.nouvelobs.com/societe/20210113.OBS38777/il-etait-sa-propre-planete-et-on-gravitait-autour-quand-olivier-duhamel-regnait-sur-sanary.html |title=" Il était sa propre planète et on gravitait autour " : quand Olivier Duhamel régnait sur Sanary |date=13 January 2021 |access-date=31 January 2021 |archive-date=5 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210305073534/https://www.nouvelobs.com/societe/20210113.OBS38777/il-etait-sa-propre-planete-et-on-gravitait-autour-quand-olivier-duhamel-regnait-sur-sanary.html |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.marieclaire.fr/la-familia-grande-camille-kouchner-inceste-olivier-duhamel-critique,1369063.asp |title="La familia grande", l'inceste comme mécanisme de domination |website=Marie Claire |access-date=8 March 2021 |archive-date=6 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210306124726/https://www.marieclaire.fr/la-familia-grande-camille-kouchner-inceste-olivier-duhamel-critique,1369063.asp |url-status=live}}</ref> It led to a series of investigations on the environment of Duhamel at Sciences Po and on the way they dealt with these abuses.<ref name="LM-2021-01-08"/>

The scandal eventually led to a series of resignations under pressure at Sciences Po. Duhamel resigned. While Frédéric Mion initially refused to resign, it later became apparent that he had lied about not having heard the rumors about Duhamel. He resigned.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/paris-ile-de-france/paris/affaire-duhamel-des-etudiants-de-sciences-po-demandent-la-demission-de-leur-directeur-1912630.html |title=Affaire Duhamel : des étudiants de Sciences Po demandent la démission de leur directeur |website=France 3 Paris Ile-de-France |access-date=8 January 2021 |archive-date=8 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210108083937/https://france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/paris-ile-de-france/paris/affaire-duhamel-des-etudiants-de-sciences-po-demandent-la-demission-de-leur-directeur-1912630.html |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.liberation.fr/debats/2021/01/21/sciences-po-apres-l-affaire-duhamel-une-seule-solution-la-demission-du-directeur_1818141/ |title=Sciences-Po : après l'affaire Duhamel, une seule solution, la démission du directeur |first=Daniel |last=Mugerin |website=Libération |access-date=9 March 2021 |archive-date=21 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210221125901/https://www.liberation.fr/debats/2021/01/21/sciences-po-apres-l-affaire-duhamel-une-seule-solution-la-demission-du-directeur_1818141/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.liberation.fr/debats/2021/01/13/affaire-duhamel-nous-etudiantes-et-etudiants-demandons-la-demission-du-directeur-de-science-po-frede_1815892/ |title=Affaire Duhamel : "Nous, étudiantes et étudiants, demandons la démission du directeur de Sciences-Po Frédéric Mion" |first=Un collectif d'étudiants de Sciences-Po |last=Paris |website=Libération |access-date=9 March 2021 |archive-date=22 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210222200654/https://www.liberation.fr/debats/2021/01/13/affaire-duhamel-nous-etudiantes-et-etudiants-demandons-la-demission-du-directeur-de-science-po-frede_1815892/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.leparisien.fr/societe/affaire-duhamel-des-etudiants-demandent-de-nouveau-la-demission-du-directeur-de-sciences-po-18-01-2021-8419778.php |title=Affaire Duhamel : des étudiants demandent de nouveau la démission du directeur de Sciences-po |date=18 January 2021 |website=Le Parisien |access-date=31 January 2021 |archive-date=4 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210204050322/https://www.leparisien.fr/societe/affaire-duhamel-des-etudiants-demandent-de-nouveau-la-demission-du-directeur-de-sciences-po-18-01-2021-8419778.php |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=10 February 2021 |title=Affaire Olivier Duhamel : le rapport qui a poussé Frédéric Mion à démissionner de Sciences Po |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2021/02/10/affaire-olivier-duhamel-le-rapport-qui-a-pousse-frederic-mion-a-demissionner-de-sciences-po_6069487_3224.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210220114241/https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2021/02/10/affaire-olivier-duhamel-le-rapport-qui-a-pousse-frederic-mion-a-demissionner-de-sciences-po_6069487_3224.html |archive-date=20 February 2021 |access-date=20 February 2021 |newspaper=Le Monde.fr |via=Le Monde}}</ref>

Following the Duhamel scandal, Sciences Po issued a statement condemning "all forms of sexualized violence" and declaring "its shock and astonishment". It also stated: "The fight against sexual and gender-based violence is at the heart of our institution's core values and actions."<ref name="NYT-2021-01-05"/>

=== Sexual violence ===
After Richard Descoing, head of the school from 1997 to 2012, died, it was revealed that he had had sex with students,<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2021/03/GARRIGOU/62872 |title=Petits secrets entre amis à Sciences Po |first=Alain |last=Garrigou |date=1 March 2021 |website=Le Monde diplomatique |access-date=5 March 2021 |archive-date=6 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210306141215/https://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2021/03/GARRIGOU/62872 |url-status=live}}</ref> and made no case of [[Dominique Strauss-Kahn]]'s habit of "seducing" young students.<ref name="LM-2021-04-01" /> Descoing was accused of sending sexual messages to students, but no further inquiry was made.<ref name="LM-2021-01-08"/>

In February 2021, hundreds of students and former students shared on Twitter allegations of rape or sexual abuse at several [[Instituts d'études politiques]], and claimed that despite denunciations of victims, "colleagues and staff [were] unwilling to take their complaints seriously".<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/elite-french-university-caught-up-in-deluge-of-sex-abuse-allegations-ks20mchc5 |title=Elite French university caught up in deluge of sex abuse allegations |first=Charles Bremner |last=Paris |via=www.thetimes.co.uk |access-date=20 February 2021 |archive-date=20 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210220154904/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/elite-french-university-caught-up-in-deluge-of-sex-abuse-allegations-ks20mchc5 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.theweek.co.uk/951967/french-university-sex-abuse-allegations |title=Elite university drawn into France's sex abuse scandal |website=The Week UK |date=12 February 2021 |access-date=20 February 2021 |archive-date=14 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210214045127/https://www.theweek.co.uk/951967/french-university-sex-abuse-allegations |url-status=live}}</ref> A hashtag #SciencesPorcs ("Sciences Pigs", similar to the French #Metoo hashtag #Balancetonporcs) has been widely used to do so.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-56110052 |title=France's elite confronted by sexual abuse scandals |work=BBC News |date=19 February 2021 |access-date=20 February 2021 |archive-date=20 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210220145436/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-56110052 |url-status=live}}</ref>

Among many op-eds dealing with the 2021 crisis at Sciences Po, two male alumni published in ''L'Express'' an op-ed specific to the sexual violence scandal, stating their disagreement with the "caricature" that is made of Sciences Po, which is allegedly the object of "passions, sometimes irrational ones" in the public "imaginary" because of the elite status they say the institute has; they assured there is no systemic problem regarding sexual violence in Sciences Po.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.lexpress.fr/actualite/idees-et-debats/sciences-po-nous-ne-nous-reconnaissons-pas-dans-la-caricature-qui-est-faite_2145095.html |title=Sciences Po : "Nous ne nous reconnaissons pas dans la caricature qui est faite" |date=18 February 2021 |access-date=19 April 2021 |archive-date=19 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210419180504/https://www.lexpress.fr/actualite/idees-et-debats/sciences-po-nous-ne-nous-reconnaissons-pas-dans-la-caricature-qui-est-faite_2145095.html |url-status=live}}</ref> Bénédicte Durand, interim administrator of the school, further told ''Le Figaro'' that "no, there is no rape culture in Sciences Po".<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/il-n-y-a-pas-de-culture-du-viol-a-sciences-po-20210504 |title=" Non, il n'y a pas de culture du viol à Sciences Po " |date=4 May 2021 |access-date=7 May 2021 |archive-date=7 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210507220651/https://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/il-n-y-a-pas-de-culture-du-viol-a-sciences-po-20210504 |url-status=live}}</ref> The school published a report on sexual and sexist violence that was called "abundant but shy".<ref name="nouvelobs.com">{{Cite web |date=4 May 2021 |title=Sciences-Po Paris : les foisonnants mais timides rapports sur la déontologie et les violences sexistes et sexuelles |url=https://www.nouvelobs.com/societe/20210504.OBS43625/sciences-po-paris-les-foisonnants-mais-timides-rapports-sur-la-deontologie-et-les-violences-sexistes-et-sexuelles.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210507215905/https://www.nouvelobs.com/societe/20210504.OBS43625/sciences-po-paris-les-foisonnants-mais-timides-rapports-sur-la-deontologie-et-les-violences-sexistes-et-sexuelles.html |archive-date=7 May 2021 |access-date=7 May 2021}}</ref>

=== "Racialism" and social issues ===

Many students and some members of the French Parliament have expressed concern about the enforcement of "[[racialism]]" in Sciences Po.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/a-sciences-po-paris-l-ideologie-racialiste-fait-peu-a-peu-son-nid-20210110 |title=À Sciences Po Paris, l'idéologie racialiste fait peu à peu son nid |website=LEFIGARO |date=10 January 2021 |access-date=31 January 2021 |archive-date=3 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210203112031/https://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/a-sciences-po-paris-l-ideologie-racialiste-fait-peu-a-peu-son-nid-20210110 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.lexpress.fr/actualite/societe/race-genre-wokisme-et-sorcieres-sciences-po-reims-sous-emprise-americaine_2180938.html |title=Race, genre, wokisme et... Sorcières : Sciences Po Reims sous emprise américaine |date=28 September 2022 |access-date=7 October 2022 |archive-date=7 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221007030724/https://www.lexpress.fr/actualite/societe/race-genre-wokisme-et-sorcieres-sciences-po-reims-sous-emprise-americaine_2180938.html |url-status=live}}</ref>

===Financial scandals===
Alain Lancelot, director of Sciences Po from 1987 to 1996, was investigated for financial mismanagement by the [[Court of Audit (France)|French Court of Audit]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.challenges.fr/france/sciences-po-la-cour-des-comptes-demande-des-poursuites_189798 |title=Sciences Po : la Cour des comptes demande des poursuites |website=Challenges |date=22 November 2012 |access-date=26 May 2017 |archive-date=6 October 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161006021044/http://www.challenges.fr/france/sciences-po-la-cour-des-comptes-demande-des-poursuites_189798 |url-status=live}}</ref>

Under [[Richard Descoings]], its director from 1997 to 2012, the school was hit by a few financial scandals.<ref name="mediapart.fr2">{{Cite web |url=https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/culture-idees/dossier/dossier-sciences-po-la-fuite-en-avant-et-les-scandales |title=Dossier: Sciences-Po, la fuite en avant et les scandales |first=François |last=Bonnet |website=Mediapart |date=8 October 2012 |access-date=27 August 2016 |archive-date=28 August 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160828035509/https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/culture-idees/dossier/dossier-sciences-po-la-fuite-en-avant-et-les-scandales |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="jour">{{cite web |url=https://www.contrepoints.org/2012/10/12/100252-la-derive-financiere-de-sciences-po-et-la-complaisance-de-letat |title=La dérive financière de Sciences Po et la complaisance de l'État |date=12 October 2012 |access-date=16 February 2017 |archive-date=17 February 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170217145046/https://www.contrepoints.org/2012/10/12/100252-la-derive-financiere-de-sciences-po-et-la-complaisance-de-letat |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.contrepoints.org/2012/10/12/100252-la-derive-financiere-de-sciences-po-et-la-complaisance-de-letat |title=La dérive financière de Sciences Po et la complaisance de l'État |date=12 October 2012 |website=Contrepoints |access-date=16 February 2017 |archive-date=17 February 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170217145046/https://www.contrepoints.org/2012/10/12/100252-la-derive-financiere-de-sciences-po-et-la-complaisance-de-letat |url-status=live}}</ref> Descoings had been criticized for offering large sums of money (through salary rise, free accommodation, etc.) to diverse members of staff, including his wife, in spite of the fact that Sciences Po was partly state-funded.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/france/131211/les-dirigeants-de-sciences-po-touchent-des-superbonus |title=Les dirigeants de Sciences-Po touchent des superbonus |first=Jade |last=Lindgaard |website=Mediapart |date=13 December 2011 |access-date=27 August 2016 |archive-date=28 August 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160828033018/https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/france/131211/les-dirigeants-de-sciences-po-touchent-des-superbonus |url-status=live}}</ref>

In October 2012, the Court of Audit reprimanded Sciences Po for financial mismanagement, accusing it of opaque remuneration procedures, unwarranted expenses claims and excessive pay rises for managers.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://blog.educpros.fr/pierredubois/files/2012/10/sciences-po-paris.pdf |title=Educpros : actualités et services pour les professionnels de l'éducation. – Educpros.fr |website=blog.educpros.fr |access-date=27 August 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160828193613/http://blog.educpros.fr/pierredubois/files/2012/10/sciences-po-paris.pdf |archive-date=28 August 2016 |url-status=dead}}</ref> The Court noted that the school's complex legal status – a public institute managed by a private trust – had contributed to a dysfunction and waste. It also criticized the [[Government of France|French government]] for increasing state funding for the school without insisting on additional public oversight.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ccomptes.fr/Actualites/Archives/Sciences-Po-une-forte-ambition-une-gestion-defaillante#Conclusion |title=Sciences Po : une forte ambition, une gestion défaillante / Archives / Actualités / Accueil / Cour des Comptes – Cour des comptes |first=Cour des |last=comptes |website=ccomptes.fr |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160826020100/http://www.ccomptes.fr/Actualites/Archives/Sciences-Po-une-forte-ambition-une-gestion-defaillante#Conclusion |archive-date=26 August 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2012/07/08/la-cour-des-comptes-fustige-la-gestion-de-sciences-po_1730681_3224.html |title=La Cour des comptes fustige la gestion de Sciences Po |first=Benoît |last=Floc'h |date=8 July 2012 |work=Le Monde |access-date=27 August 2016 |archive-date=9 August 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160809073804/http://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2012/07/08/la-cour-des-comptes-fustige-la-gestion-de-sciences-po_1730681_3224.html |url-status=live}}</ref>

In July 2015, [[Jean-Claude Casanova]], the former president of the ''Foundation Nationale des Sciences Politiques'', the private trust which manages Sciences Po, was fined €1500 for failing to properly consult the Foundation's Administrative Council over budgeting decisions involving public money. The Court of Financial and Budgetary Discipline eventually found Casanova guilty, but gave him a lenient sentence because the procedures had some part of regularity and because it was not customary in Sciences Po to follow all the financial rules.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.lemonde.fr/education/article/2015/07/24/scandale-des-salaires-a-sciences-po-jean-claude-casanova-renvoye-devant-la-cour-de-discipline-budgetaire_4696940_1473685.html |title=Scandale des salaires à Sciences Po : Jean-Claude Casanova renvoyé devant la Cour de discipline budgétaire |date=24 July 2015 |work=Le Monde |access-date=27 August 2016 |archive-date=8 October 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161008055141/http://www.lemonde.fr/education/article/2015/07/24/scandale-des-salaires-a-sciences-po-jean-claude-casanova-renvoye-devant-la-cour-de-discipline-budgetaire_4696940_1473685.html |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2015/12/04/jean-claude-casanova-condamne-dans-l-affaire-sciences-po_4824373_3224.html |title=Jean-Claude Casanova condamné dans l'" affaire Sciences Po " |first=Benoît |last=Floc'h |date=4 December 2015 |work=Le Monde |access-date=27 August 2016 |archive-date=8 October 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161008055123/http://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2015/12/04/jean-claude-casanova-condamne-dans-l-affaire-sciences-po_4824373_3224.html |url-status=live}}</ref>

In February 2016, the Court of Audit noted that reforms had been made, but stated that greater transparency was still needed. Frédéric Mion, the then director of Sciences Po, defended the school's reforms.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeurs/article/2016/02/10/ce-qu-il-faut-retenir-du-rapport-de-la-cour-des-comptes-2016-en-7-graphes_4862552_4355770.html |title=Ce qu'il faut retenir du rapport de la Cour des comptes 2016 en 7 graphes |first=Les |last=Décodeurs |date=10 February 2016 |work=Le Monde |access-date=26 May 2017 |archive-date=24 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170824053832/http://www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeurs/article/2016/02/10/ce-qu-il-faut-retenir-du-rapport-de-la-cour-des-comptes-2016-en-7-graphes_4862552_4355770.html |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.challenges.fr/economie/prise-de-bec-entre-la-cour-des-comptes-et-sciences-po_40260 |title=Prise de bec entre la Cour des comptes et Sciences-Po |website=Challenges |date=10 February 2016 |access-date=26 May 2017 |archive-date=16 March 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170316173616/https://www.challenges.fr/economie/prise-de-bec-entre-la-cour-des-comptes-et-sciences-po_40260 |url-status=live}}</ref>

=== Access to the Bar ===

{{see also|Law schools in France (disambiguation)}}

In 2007, a governmental decree authorized Sciences Po students to pass the Bar exam, providing they take a master's degree in law. This led to academics in universities to label the move as a "coup", fearing that Sciences Po students would crowd out law students from the universities at the bar. According to them, Sciences Po did not offer enough law courses for barristers to have a solid education in law.<ref name="cairn.info">{{cite journal |last=Ait-Aoudia |first=Myriam |date=2013 |title=Le droit dans la concurrence. Mobilisations universitaires contre la création de diplômes de droit à Sciences Po Paris |url=https://www.cairn.info/revue-droit-et-societe1-2013-1-page-99.htm |url-status=live |journal=Droit et Société |language=French |pages=99–116 |doi=10.3917/drs.083.0099 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201002143859/https://www.cairn.info/revue-droit-et-societe1-2013-1-page-99.htm |archive-date=2 October 2020 |access-date=21 February 2022}}</ref>

In 2009, Sciences Po created its law school, the "''École de droit de Sciences Po''" ("law school", as opposed in French to a ''faculté de droit'', "faculty of law"), delivering masters (graduate) degrees. In 2008, partly as an answer, [[Paris II Panthéon-Assas]] created a ''collège de droit'' (undergraduate level) and then an "''école de droit''" (graduate level) on top of its faculty of law to attract top students in France.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.francetvinfo.fr/replay-radio/modes-de-vie/filieres-d-excellence-a-la-fac_1732537.html |title=Filières d'excellence à la fac |date=13 February 2013 |website=Franceinfo |access-date=11 January 2021 |archive-date=20 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210120231526/https://www.francetvinfo.fr/replay-radio/modes-de-vie/filieres-d-excellence-a-la-fac_1732537.html |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/2010/09/29/01016-20100929ARTFIG00438-universites-les-cursus-pour-etudiants-brillants.php |title=Universités : les cursus pour étudiants brillants |website=LEFIGARO |date=29 September 2010 |access-date=11 January 2021 |archive-date=6 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210306055950/https://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/2010/09/29/01016-20100929ARTFIG00438-universites-les-cursus-pour-etudiants-brillants.php |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.nouvelobs.com/education/20131219.OBS0267/les-charmes-caches-de-l-universite.html |title=Les charmes cachés de l'université |website=L'Obs |date=27 December 2013 |access-date=11 January 2021 |archive-date=16 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210116090837/https://www.nouvelobs.com/education/20131219.OBS0267/les-charmes-caches-de-l-universite.html |url-status=live}}</ref> A lot of universities followed this model, and created these [[Law school, college of law or academy of law in France|selective "colleges" or "schools"]].<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/campus/article/2015/06/24/polemique-sur-les-parcours-d-excellence-en-droit_4660626_4401467.html |title=Polémique sur les " parcours d'excellence " en droit |newspaper=Le Monde.fr |date=24 June 2015 |via=Le Monde |access-date=11 January 2021 |archive-date=25 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210125180650/https://www.lemonde.fr/campus/article/2015/06/24/polemique-sur-les-parcours-d-excellence-en-droit_4660626_4401467.html |url-status=live}}</ref>

==Notable people==
{{main|List of Sciences Po people}}

=== Alumni ===
{{Disputed section|Alumni|date=January 2021}}

It has been customary to graduate in Sciences Po in addition to a law school or a ''grande école'' in Paris, therefore many of these graduates are also graduates of the latter.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.sciencespo.fr/actualites/actualit%C3%A9s/de-marcel-proust-%C3%A0-florian-zeller-%C3%A9crivains-dipl%C3%B4m%C3%A9s-de-sciences-po/1471 |title=De Marcel Proust à Florian Zeller : les écrivains diplômés de Sciences Po |website=Sciences Po |access-date=31 January 2021 |archive-date=6 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210506025813/http://www.sciencespo.fr/actualites/actualit%C3%A9s/de-marcel-proust-%C3%A0-florian-zeller-%C3%A9crivains-dipl%C3%B4m%C3%A9s-de-sciences-po/1471 |url-status=live}}</ref>

In 2016, the Sciences Po Alumni Association declared that there were 55,000 alumni.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Dumont |first=Yves |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Bj0bDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA215 |page=215 |title=Administrateur de sociétés : pourquoi pas moi ?: Méthodes et conseils pour rechercher et obtenir un mandat d'administrateur |date=2016 |publisher=Eyrolles |isbn=978-2-212-56419-8 |language=fr |access-date=28 January 2021 |archive-date=20 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211020050147/https://books.google.com/books?id=Bj0bDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA215 |url-status=live}}</ref> Many alumni are notable for their roles in fields such as politics or business.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Antonelli |first1=Gilberto |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ckYrDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA101 |page=101 |title=Inequality in Economics and Sociology: New Perspectives |last2=Rehbein |first2=Boike |date=6 July 2017 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=978-1-317-19315-9 |language=en |access-date=28 January 2021 |archive-date=9 April 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220409132923/https://books.google.com/books?id=ckYrDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA101 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Delchet-Cochet |first=Karen |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qHb8DwAAQBAJ&pg=PR17 |page=17 |title=Circular Economy: From Waste Reduction to Value Creation |date=3 November 2020 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |isbn=978-1-78630-573-2 |language=en |access-date=28 January 2021 |archive-date=9 April 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220409132923/https://books.google.com/books?id=qHb8DwAAQBAJ&pg=PR17 |url-status=live}}</ref>

==== Politics ====
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Six of the eight [[President of France|presidents]] of the [[French Fifth Republic]] have attended Sciences Po, including [[Georges Pompidou]], [[François Mitterrand]], [[Jacques Chirac]], [[Nicolas Sarkozy]], [[François Hollande]], and [[Emmanuel Macron]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.lemonde.fr/election-presidentielle-2012/article/2012/05/11/a-l-ecole-des-presidents-de-la-veme-republique_1698484_1471069.html |title=A l'école des présidents de la Vème République |last=Zerouala |first=Faïza |date=11 May 2012 |work=Le Monde |access-date=9 May 2017 |archive-date=8 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170808235704/http://www.lemonde.fr/election-presidentielle-2012/article/2012/05/11/a-l-ecole-des-presidents-de-la-veme-republique_1698484_1471069.html |url-status=live}}</ref>  [[Alain Poher]] (who served twice as acting president) was also an alumnus.<ref>{{Cite web |website=elysee. Fr |url=https://www.elysee.fr/alain-poher |title=Alain Poher |date=2022-12-15}}</ref> A number of French politicians who are Sciences Po alumni also graduated from [[École nationale d'administration|Ecole Nationale d'Administration (ENA)]], as the Sciences Po degree and its preparatory programmes have shown high admittance rates to the ENA.<ref>{{Cite web |title=ENA and Civil Service Exams: Record Results for Sciences Po Students |url=https://www.sciencespo.fr/en/news/news/ena-and-civil-service-exams-record-results-for-sciences-po-students/4490 |access-date=26 March 2022 |website=Sciences Po |language=en |archive-date=22 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200922183601/https://www.sciencespo.fr/en/news/news/ena-and-civil-service-exams-record-results-for-sciences-po-students/4490 |url-status=live}}</ref>

In 2017, 14% (81 of the 577) of French members of parliament elected that year were Sciences Po graduates, the most represented institution of higher learning and ''grande école'' in the [[National Assembly (France)|National Assembly]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeurs/article/2017/06/26/les-diplomes-de-grandes-ecoles-surrepresentes-a-l-assemblee-nationale_5151066_4355770.html |title=Les diplômés de grandes écoles surreprésentés à l'Assemblée nationale |last=Le Foll |first=Clément |date=26 June 2017 |work=Le Monde |access-date=10 January 2020 |archive-date=13 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200713081124/https://www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeurs/article/2017/06/26/les-diplomes-de-grandes-ecoles-surrepresentes-a-l-assemblee-nationale_5151066_4355770.html |url-status=live}}</ref>

Some politicians having a role in international organisations were also students at Sciences Po, including [[Simone Veil]], former President of the European Parliament; [[Boutros Boutros-Ghali]], former [[Secretary-General of the United Nations|UN Secretary General]]; [[Pascal Lamy]], former Director-General of the World Trade Organisation; [[Michel Camdessus]] and [[Dominique Strauss-Kahn]], former presidents of the International Monetary Fund;<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.edubourse.com/biographie/dominique-strauss-kahn.php |title=Biographie de Dominique Strauss Kahn |website=edubourse.com |date=21 October 2021 |access-date=9 May 2017 |archive-date=24 June 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170624033853/http://www.edubourse.com/biographie/dominique-strauss-kahn.php |url-status=live}}</ref> [[Jean-Claude Trichet]], former President of the European Central Bank; and [[Marisol Touraine]], Chair of [[Unitaid]] Executive Board.

Sciences Po is also ''alma mater'' to politicians including [[Władysław Grabski]] (Prime Minister of Poland 1920, 1923–1925), [[Habib Bourguiba|Habib Bourgiba]] (Prime Minister of the [[Kingdom of Tunisia]] 1956–1957 and the first President of the [[Tunisia|Tunisian Republic]] 1957–1987), [[Joseph Ki-Zerbo]] (Burkinabé advocate for African independence), [[Mohammad Mosaddegh]] (Prime Minister of Iran 1951–1953), [[Pierre Trudeau]] ([[Prime Minister of Canada]] 1968–1979, 1980–1984), [[Thanat Khoman]] (Thai Minister of Foreign Affairs 1959–1971 and Deputy Prime Minister 1981–1983) and [[Salome Zourabichvili]] ([[President of Georgia]] since 2018).

Among the recipients of Sciences Po doctorate honoris causa are [[Václav Havel]] (2009), [[Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva]] (2011), Elena Zhemkova (2022), and [[Angela Merkel]] (2023).

==== Diplomacy ====

Senior French diplomats including [[Jean-Marcel Jeanneney]] (France's first Ambassador to Algeria) [[François Delattre]] (currently Permanent Representative of France [[Permanent Mission of France to the United Nations|to the UN]]),<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.lemonde.fr/m-moyen-format/article/2017/04/19/francois-delattre-porte-voix-de-la-france-a-l-onu_5113766_4497271.html |title=François Delattre, porte-voix de la France à l'ONU |newspaper=Le Monde.fr |date=19 April 2017 |access-date=1 June 2017 |archive-date=23 April 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170423061529/http://www.lemonde.fr//m-moyen-format/article/2017/04/19/francois-delattre-porte-voix-de-la-france-a-l-onu_5113766_4497271.html |url-status=live}}</ref> [[Gérard Araud]] (former [[List of French ambassadors to the United States|ambassador to the USA]]),<ref>{{cite web |url=http://fr.franceintheus.org/spip.php?rubrique51 |title=L'Ambassadeur – France in the United States / Embassy of France in Washington, D.C. |last=D.C. |first=Ambassade de France aux Etats-Unis – Washington |website=France in the United States / Embassy of France in Washington, D.C. |access-date=1 June 2017 |archive-date=6 June 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170606050827/http://fr.franceintheus.org/spip.php?rubrique51 |url-status=live}}</ref> [[Sylvie Bermann]] (currently [[List of Ambassadors of France to the United Kingdom|ambassador to Russia]]),<ref>{{cite web |url=http://sciences-po.asso.fr/gene/main.php?base=326&id=6511 |title=Manifestation Alumni Sciences Po : Dinner Debate with H.E Sylvie Bermann, French Ambassador to the UK |last=Po |first=Alumni Sciences |website=sciences-po.asso.fr |access-date=1 June 2017 |archive-date=8 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170808234545/http://sciences-po.asso.fr/gene/main.php?base=326&id=6511 |url-status=live}}</ref> [[Bernard Émié]] (former Director of the [[Directorate-General for External Security|DGSE]]),<ref>{{cite web |url=https://dz.ambafrance.org/Biographie-de-M-Bernard-Emie-Ambassadeur-de-France-en-Algerie |title=Biographie de M. Bernard Emié, Ambassadeur de France en Algérie – La France en Algérie |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170425114606/https://dz.ambafrance.org/Biographie-de-M-Bernard-Emie-Ambassadeur-de-France-en-Algerie |archive-date=25 April 2017}}</ref> [[Jean-Maurice Ripert]] (former [[Permanent Representative of France to the United Nations]], [[List of Ambassadors of France to Russia|Ambassador of France to Russia]], and [[Ambassade de France en Chine|Ambassador of France to China]]), and [[Maurice Gourdault-Montagne]] (ambassador to China)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://cn.ambafrance.org/L-ambassadeur-14675 |title=L'ambassadeur – La France en Chine |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170109194402/https://cn.ambafrance.org/L-ambassadeur-14675 |archive-date=9 January 2017}}</ref> are also alumni.

==== Other ====
The writer [[Marcel Proust]], the founder of the modern [[Olympics]] [[Pierre de Coubertin]],<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.sciencespo.fr/stories/#!/fr/frise/14/ils-ont-etudie-a-l-ecole-libre-des-sciences-politiques/ |title=Alumni – Sciences Po International |date=4 February 2015 |website=sciencespo.fr |access-date=18 December 2021 |archive-date=18 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220118100726/https://www.sciencespo.fr/stories/#!/fr/frise/14/ils-ont-etudie-a-l-ecole-libre-des-sciences-politiques/ |url-status=live}}</ref> fashion designer [[Christian Dior]], author [[Leïla Slimani]], author [[Emmanuel Carrère]], [[Harvard University]] Professor of political science [[Stanley Hoffmann]], Chinese linguist [[Ma Jianzhong]], Director of [[Paris Peace Forum]] [[Justin Vaïsse]], journalist [[Arthur Dreyfus]], researcher, [[Margaret Maruani]], political scientist [[Tiago C. Peixoto]], and former ''[[Le Monde]]'' editor [[Jean-Marie Colombani]] were all graduated from Sciences Po.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sciencespo.fr/international/en/content/alumni |title=Alumni – Sciences Po International |date=4 February 2015 |website=sciencespo.fr |access-date=9 May 2017 |archive-date=24 April 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170424050323/http://www.sciencespo.fr/international/en/content/alumni |url-status=live}}</ref>

=== Notable staff ===
{{main|Category:Academic staff of Sciences Po}}
Jurist and 1907 [[Nobel Peace Prize]] laureate [[Louis Renault (jurist)|Louis Renault]] taught international law at Sciences Po from its foundation in 1875 until his death in 1918. Arbitrator [[Emmanuel Gaillard]] taught at the Law School until his death.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.lemondedudroit.fr/nominations/4627-emmanuel-gaillard-elu-professeur-a-lecole-de-droit-de-sciences-po.html |title=Emmanuel Gaillard élu professeur à l'École de Droit de Sciences Po |date=6 September 2012 |language=French |access-date=21 February 2022 |archive-date=21 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220221171755/https://www.lemondedudroit.fr/nominations/4627-emmanuel-gaillard-elu-professeur-a-lecole-de-droit-de-sciences-po.html |url-status=live}}</ref>

Economist [[Jean-Paul Fitoussi]] taught at Sciences Po from 1982 to 2010. [[Michel Aglietta]] and [[Yann Algan]] also taught economics there.

The philosopher, anthropologist and sociologist [[Bruno Latour]] taught at Sciences Po from 2006 until his death in 2022.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.medialab.sciences-po.fr/fr/people/bruno-latour/ |title=Bruno Latour – Sciences Po – MedialabSciences Po – Medialab |website=medialab.sciences-po.fr |access-date=23 May 2017 |archive-date=5 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170805171658/http://www.medialab.sciences-po.fr/fr/people/bruno-latour/ |url-status=live}}</ref> [[Paul Janet]] also taught philosophy at Sciences Po.<ref name=":722">{{cite book |access-date=2023-06-21 |date=1987-01-01 |first1=Gérard |first2=Anne-Marie |isbn=978-2-259-26077-0 |language=fr |last1=Vincent |last2=Dethomas |publisher=Plon (réédition numérique FeniXX) |title=Sciences po: Histoire d'une réussite |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pDNYDwAAQBAJ}}<!-- auto-translated from French by Module:CS1 translator --></ref> [[Frédéric Gros]] teaches philosophy at Sciences Po.<ref>{{cite web |access-date=29 January 2023 |title=Frédéric Gros |url=https://www.sciencespo.fr/cevipof/fr/chercheur/frederic-gros.html |website=sciencespo.fr|date=18 October 2017 }}<!-- auto-translated from French by Module:CS1 translator --></ref>

The sociologists [[Michel Crozier]] and [[Erhard Friedberg]] taught at Sciences Po and founded its sociology department ([[Center for the Sociology of Organizations]]).<ref name=":10" />

[[Pierre Hassner]], a French geopolitologist and philosopher, was director emeritus of Research at the Sciences Po Center for International Studies and Research. [[Pierre Renouvin]], a French historian of international relations, taught at Sciences Po from 1938 to 1970. [[Jean-Baptiste Duroselle]] taught from 1946 to 1983.<ref>{{cite web |access-date=2017-08-03 |title=1917 : Jean- Baptiste Duroselle |url=https://www.sciencespo.fr/stories/portrait/jean-baptiste-duroselle |website=Sciences Po stories|language=fr}}.</ref> More recently, [[Gilles Kepel]] taught there starting from 2001.<ref>{{cite book |date=2015 |first1=Raphaëlle |isbn=978-2-246-78913-0 |language=fr |last1=Bacqué |location=Paris |page=284 |publisher=Bernard Grasset |title=Richie: Biografie}}<!-- auto-translated from French by Module:CS1 translator --></ref>

[[Jean-Luc Parodi]], a French political scientist, worked at the Sciences Po Center of Political Research for the entirety of his career.

[[Élie Halévy]] taught history of English political ideas and socialism at Sciences Po from 1896 until his death in 1937. [[Raoul Girardet]] started teaching at Sciences Po in 1956.<ref name=":10" /> [[René Rémond]] taught history starting from 1956. [[Marc Lazar]] taught history from 1999 to 2022.<ref name=":10" />

Among French presidents, [[Raymond Poincaré]] taught at Sciences Po in the 1900s,<ref>{{cite book |access-date=2023-07-18 |date=1995 |first1=Gisèle |first2=Serge |isbn=978-2-87027-549-8 |language=fr |last1=Berstein |last2=Berstein |publisher=Editions Complexe |title=Dictionnaire historique de la France contemporaine: 1870-1945 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UD6YwR00aiIC}}<!-- auto-translated from French by Module:CS1 translator --></ref> as well as [[Paul Deschanel]].<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Berstein |first1=Gisèle |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UD6YwR00aiIC |title=Dictionnaire historique de la France contemporaine: 1870-1945 |last2=Berstein |first2=Serge |date=1995 |publisher=Editions Complexe |isbn=978-2-87027-549-8 |language=fr}}</ref> [[Georges Pompidou]] taught philosophy at Sciences Po starting from the 1950s.<ref name=":3" /> [[Jacques Chirac]] taught economics in the 1960s.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2016-11-23 |title=Émile Magazine - Ces présidents qui ont enseigné à Sciences Po |url=https://www.emilemagazine.fr/article/2016/11/23/ces-prsidents-qui-ont-enseign-sciences-po |access-date=2024-06-22 |website=Émile Magazine |language=fr-FR}}</ref> [[François Hollande]] was an adjunct lecturer in economics at Sciences Po until 1991.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Cotta |first=Michèle |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GwjwazvztD4C |title=Le Rose et le Gris: Prélude au quinquennat de François Hollande |date=2012-10-17 |publisher=Fayard |isbn=978-2-213-67536-7 |language=fr}}</ref> [[Emmanuel Macron]] was an adjunct lecturer in philosophy in the mid-2000s.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Fulda |first=Anne |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xKpyDgAAQBAJ |title=Emmanuel Macron, un jeune homme si parfait |date=2017-04-06 |publisher=Place des éditeurs |isbn=978-2-259-25363-5 |language=fr}}</ref><sup>,</sup><ref>{{Cite book |last=Bourmaud |first=François-Xavier |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FM7jCwAAQBAJ |title=Emmanuel Macron, le banquier qui voulait être roi |date=2016-05-01 |publisher=L'Archipel |isbn=978-2-8098-1873-4 |language=fr}}</ref> The Prime minister [[Raymond Barre]] taught economics starting from the 1960s.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Pellissier |first=Pierre |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nXKJDwAAQBAJ |title=Un certain Raymond Barre |date=1977-01-01 |publisher=(Hachette) réédition numérique FeniXX |isbn=978-2-7062-3125-4 |language=fr}}</ref>

===Presidents of the FNSP and directors of Sciences Po===

==== National foundation of Sciences Po (FNSP) ====

* 1945–1959 : [[André Siegfried]]
* 1959–1971 : [[Pierre Renouvin]]
* 1971–1981 : François Goguel
* 1981–2007 : [[René Rémond]]
* 2007–2016 : [[Jean-Claude Casanova]]
* 2016–2021 : [[Olivier Duhamel]]
* 2021–''present'' : [[Laurence Bertrand Dorléac]]

==== Sciences Po ====
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* 1872–1906 : [[Émile Boutmy]]
* 1906–1936 : Eugène d'Eichthal
* 1945–1947 : [[Roger Seydoux]]
* 1947–1979 : Jacques Chapsal
* 1979–1987 : Michel Gentot
* 1987–1996: Alain Lancelot
* 1997–2012: [[Richard Descoings]]
* 2013–2021: [[Frédéric Mion]]
* 2021–2024: [[Mathias Vicherat]]
* 2024: [[Jean Bassères]] ''(interim)''
* 2024–present: [[Luis Vassy]]

==See also==
{{Portal bar|Education|France}}
* [[Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs]]
* [[École nationale d'administration]]
* [[Grandes écoles]]
* [[Grands établissements]]
* [[Instituts d'études politiques]]
* [[List of Sciences Po honorary doctorate laureates]]
* [[Paris School of International Affairs]]

==Notes==
{{notelist}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==Bibliography==
* [[Richard Descoings]], ''Sciences Po. De la Courneuve à Shanghai'', préface de [[René Rémond]], Paris: Presses de Sciences Po, 2007 ({{ISBN|2-7246-0990-5}})
* [[Jacques Chapsal]], " L'Institut d'études politiques de l'Université de Paris ", ''Annales de l'Université de Paris'', n° 1, 1950
* " Centenaire de l'Institut d'études politiques de Paris (1872–1972) ", brochure de l'Institut d'études politiques de Paris, 1972
* [http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/carnet/2006-02-21-Sciences-Po A Sciences-Po, les voyages forment la jeunesse], Monde Diplomatique, Février 2006
* Pierre Favre, ''Cent dix années de cours à l'École libre des sciences politiques et à l'Institut d'études politiques de Paris (1871–1982)'', thèse de doctorat, 2 volumes, 1986
* Gérard Vincent, ''Sciences Po. Histoire d'une réussite'', Orban, Paris, 1987
* Marie-Estelle Leroty, ''L'Enseignement de l'histoire à l'École libre des sciences politiques et à l'Institut d'études politiques de l'Université de Paris de 1943 à 1968'', mémoire de diplôme d'études approfondies dirigé par [[Jean-François Sirinelli]], Institut d'études politiques de Paris, 2000
* Anne Muxel (direction), ''Les Étudiants de Sciences Po'', Paris: [[Presses de Sciences Po]], 2004, {{ISBN|2-7246-0937-9}}: Résultats d'une grande enquête menée en janvier 2002 auprès des élèves par le Cevipof
* Comité national d'évaluation des établissements publics à caractère scientifique, culturel et professionnel, ''[http://www.cne-evaluation.fr/WCNE_pdf/IEPParis_2005.pdf Rapport d'évaluation de l'Institut d'études politiques de Paris]'', Septembre 2005
* Cyril Delhay, ''Promotion ZEP. Des quartiers à Sciences Po'', Paris: [[Hachette Livre|Hachette]], 2006, {{ISBN|2-01-235949-3}}

==External links==
{{Commons category|Institut d'études politiques de Paris}}
* [http://sciences-po.eu/ Sciences Po (FNSP and IEP Paris) official English-version website]
* [http://www.histoire-politique.fr/ ''Histoire@Politique''] (journal published by the IEP-Paris)
* [https://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/05/world/europe/05iht-educLede05.html In France, a Bastion of Privilege No More] New York Times, September 2011

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