Sciences Po
Program Overview
About Sciences Po
The name Sciences Po is an abbreviation of the school's official name: Institut d'études politiques de Paris (Paris Institute of Political Studies).
Sciences Po's prestigious urban campus is in the historical Saint-Germain neighborhood, located in the heart of Paris. Each year, Sciences Po's staff, faculty and 7,500 students welcome over 1,000 exchange students from over 300 partner schools, making them an important part of the student community and the university's academic mission. The Exchange Programme allows international students to become familiar with the institution's particular educational and methodological approach for which Sciences Po is internationally reputed. In order to maximize the benefits of the Exchange Programme for exchange students, special attention is paid to addressing the specific needs of international students via an Exchange Programme for English as well as French speakers; French foreign language instruction; methodology courses; tutoring services; orientation programs; and numerous courses on the historic, economic, political and sociological facets of France and Europe. Students can combine specially tailored courses from Economics and Business with courses offered in other concentrations. Students may choose to study in English, in French or in both languages.
Term Dates
Sciences Po offers IBEX opportunities in the fall and spring semesters.
- Fall semester: late-August to late-December
- Spring semester: late-January to late-May
Dates are approximate and may be subject to change.
Housing and Living Costs
- Housing: approximately €700 – 900/month. Sciences Po does not offer on-campus student housing. International students are offered help in arranging accommodation through Sciences Po's Housing Office. The Housing Office provides a list of contacts, and assistance with procedural matters where required. Housing costs are approximately €700 – 900/month.
- Food: approximately €300/month.
- Transportation: €30 – 125/month.
- Insurance: approximately €215. (In France, every student under 28 years old is required to register for the French student social security insurance system).
- Visa: $190 USD for Campus France registration, $30 USD for VFS processing, and approximately $110 USD for a Long-Stay Student Visa.
€ = Euro
Find out more about IBEX tuition, housing, and other logistics.
Language of Instruction
English and French
Student Services
Students are treated as full-time Sciences Po students and have access to all facilities and are eligible for internships on request. French foreign language instruction, methodology courses, tutoring services, orientation programs, and numerous courses on the historic, economic, political, and sociological facets of France and Europe are offered.
Academic Information
If you are accepted to IBEX, you will attend two individual advising meetings to plan and revise your schedule: one with NYU Stern Academic Advising and one with the NYU Stern International Programs team. As you build your academic schedule for your semester abroad, carefully review and consider the following course information.
IBEX Course Information
- You may take a full semester of business classes while abroad on IBEX.
- At Sciences Po, students can complete up to 2 classes of their concentration. You will need to take or have taken 2 other courses in your concentration in residence at Stern. There are no exceptions to this policy. Students with concentrations that have more than a 12 credit and 4 class minimum, please contact your Advisor for specific guidance.
- Leave room for at least two general electives in your schedule. This allows you to:
- Take interesting, location-specific courses not offered at Stern, and
- Have more flexibility during the course registration process.
- Reference the IBEX Course Guide: What you can or cannot take.
- You can take a maximum of two classes per concentration.
- Accounting courses cannot be taken for credit toward the Accounting or CPA majors/concentrations.
- All IBEX grades will transfer back to NYU Stern as Pass/Fail.
Previously Approved Courses
- Listed below are courses that were taken previously by Stern IBEX students and have already been approved for a specific NYU equivalent.
- There is no guarantee that the courses listed here will be offered during the specific semester you study abroad. It is important to be flexible. Have a Plan A and Plan B and the space to take some electives.
- If a course is already listed below as approved, it does not need to be reviewed again, unless you want to see if it will count towards a new requirement.
Finding New Courses
- You are not limited to only taking the courses listed on this page.
- If you see a course on Science Po's website that you would like to take, but it is not listed below, you must submit the syllabus to Stern’s International Programs team for approval.
- Once Sciences Po publishes its confirmed courses for the semester you will be attending, you can revise your list as needed based on what is being offered.
- Sciences Po offers several different types of courses with varying credits:
- Lecture course: 10 ECTS = 5 NYU credits
- Seminar course: 5 ECTS = 3 NYU credits
- Elective course : 5 ECTS = 3 NYU credits
- Language course: 5 ECTS = 3 NYU credits
- Artistic workshop: 5 ECTS = 3 NYU credits
Special Notes
- Stern students wishing to take courses at Sciences Po in Paris should be prepared to take Economics, Politics, or Elective courses only. Sciences Po's other limited business courses are only available at its satellite campus in Reims. All of the courses listed below are offered at the Paris campus.
List of Approved Courses
Course Title Abroad | NYU Credits | Course Equivalent at NYU | Semester Taken |
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DHIS 25A26 - Queer, Woman & Other: Intersection Perspectives on Same-Sex Desire in Early 20th Century Imperial Europe | 3 | Cultures and Context | Fall 2024 |
DHIS 25A18 - The 200-Year War on Drugs: A Global History of Narcotics Prohibition | 3 | Cultures and Context | Fall 2024 |
AFF 25A06 - Qatar, Dubai and Abu Dhabi: Cultural Political Sociology of New International Powers | 3 | Cultures and Context | Fall 2023 |
DAFF 25A73 - Afghanistan: a nation-state not meant to be? | 3 | Cultures and Context | Fall 2023 |
DAFF 25A78 - Iran in the World: Making Sense of the Islamic Republic in Contemporary International Relations | 3 | Cultures and Context | Spring 2022 |
DHIS 25A11 Comparing Jewish Modernities: Jews in Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa, 1789-1948 | 3 | Cultures and Context | Fall 2021 |
DSPO 25A29 Islam in Europe and North America | 3 | Cultures and Context | Fall 2021 |
DAFF 25A60 European Jihadism: A Political Sociology, From the Afghan War to ISIS and Beyond (1980-2020) | 3 | Cultures and Context | Fall 2021 |
DHUM 25A21 - Happiness, Health & Well-Being: Practical Philosophy - Ancient and Modern | 3 | Texts and Ideas | Fall 2024 |
ASPO 25A27 - Religion, Politics and Society | 3 | Texts and Ideas | Fall 2023 |
DHUM 25A24 - Political Theory: Reading the Classics | 3 | Texts and Ideas | Fall 2023 |
DHUM - 25A09 - Utopian and Dystopian Visions in Literature, Film and the Arts | 3 | Texts and Ideas | Fall 2021 |
BMET 25A12 - Introduction to Econometrics with R | 3 | Advanced Computing & Data Science Elective | Fall 2024 |
AECO 25A25 - Public Economics: Policy Briefs on the Design of Taxes & Transfers | 3 | ECON-UB 11 Economics of Global Business | Fall 2024 |
DECO 25A39 - CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND CONTRACT THEORY | 3 | Advanced Management Elective | Fall 2023 |
DSOC 25A15 - The Organizational Society | 3 | Advanced Management Elective | Fall 2022 |
DDRO 25A89 - Outer Space Law & Policy | 3 | General Non-Stern Elective | Fall 2024 |
The G3 : Navigating China-US-EU Relations | 3 | General Non-Stern Elective | Fall 2023 |
Introduction to International Relations & Foreign Policy Analysis | 3 | General Non-Stern Elective | Fall 2023 |
The Decision-Making Process of the European Union: An Insider’s View | 3 | General Non-Stern Elective | Fall 2023 |
AHIS 25A15 - A Planetary Atlas of Epidemics. Places, Pathogens, Politics | 3 | General Non-Stern Elective | Fall 2022 |
DSPO 25A50 - The Political Economy of Central and Eastern Europe | 3 | General Non-Stern Elective | Fall 2022 |
DHUM 25A07 Martin Luther King, the Voice of the Civil Rights Movement | 3 | General Non-Stern Elective | Fall 2022 |
DSPO 25A04 Equality and Diversity in the United States | 3 | General Non-Stern Elective | Fall 2022 |
ASPO 25A18 The Politics of Urbanism | 3 | General Non-Stern Elective | Fall 2022 |
DSOC 25A20 Sociology of Culture | 3 | General Non-Stern Elective | Fall 2022 |
DAFF 25A26 - Workshop in Diplomacy & Negotiation | 3 | General Non-Stern Elective | Spring 2022 |
DSPO 25A48 - The Politics of Democratization | 3 | General Non-Stern Elective | Spring 2022 |
DAFF 25A28 - Strategic Studies | 3 | General Non-Stern Elective | Spring 2022 |
DSOC 25A01 - Economic Sociology | 3 | General Non-Stern Elective | Fall 2021 |
ASOC 25A11 Gender and Sociology | 5 | General Non-Stern Elective | Fall 2021 |
DHUM 25A16 Thinking Photography Through Text and Image | 3 | General Non-Stern Elective | Fall 2021 |
DHIS 25A03 Introduction to Disability Studies | 3 | General Non-Stern Elective | Fall 2021 |
Français B1 | 3 | General Non-Stern Elective | Fall 2022 |
(Un)making the World: Critical Approaches to International Law | 3 | General Stern Elective | Fall 2024 |
AECO 25A11 - Economics: Information, Design and Institutions | 5 | General Stern Elective | Fall 2024 |
DECO 25A37 Law & Political Economy | 3 | General Stern Elective | Fall 2024 |
Financial Economics | 3 | General Stern Elective | Spring 2022 |
OBUS 2045 - Initiation to Entrepreneurship | 2 | General Stern Elective | Spring 2022 |
DSPO 25A47 - The Anglo-Saxon Economic Model: An Interdisciplinary Evaluation | 3 | General Stern Elective | Spring 2022 |
DECO 25A16 - Econometric Theory for Surveys and Policy Evaluation | 3 | General Stern Elective | Spring 2022 |
DECO 25A17 - The Economics Theory of Networks and Strategic Interaction | 3 | General Stern Elective | Spring 2022 |
DECO 25A29 - Economic Outlook Assessment: Methods, Tools and Debates for Economists & Policy Makers | 3 | General Stern Elective | Spring 2022 |
An Introduction to Environmental Economics | 3 | General Stern Elective | Spring 2022 |
DECO 25A12 - Emerging Economies and Societies | 3 | General Stern Elective | Spring 2022 |
DDRO 25A52 - Money in the Age of Cryptocurrency | 3 | General Stern Elective | Spring 2022 |
DSOC 25A00 Comparative Social Policy: A Multidisciplinary Outlook | 3 | Advanced Global Business Elective | Fall 2021 |
DSPO 25A02 European Integration and Its Challenges: The Euro, Migration, and Populism | 3 | Advanced Global Business Elective | Fall 2021 |
Behavioral Economics - AECO 25A24 | 3 | Advanced Economics Elective | Spring 2024 |
Development Economics - AECO 25A23 | 3 | Advanced Economics Elective | Spring 2024 |
DECO 25A15 - Money and Monetary Policy in the XXIst Century | 3 | Advanced Economics Elective | Spring 2022 |
DECO 25A30 - Global Collective Action in An Economic Perspective | 3 | Advanced Economics Elective | Spring 2022 |
AECO 25A00 - Trade and International Finance | 5 | Advanced Economics Elective OR Advanced Finance | Fall 2021 |
Contemporary Perspectives in Financial and Banking Regulation | 3 | Advanced Economics Elective | Fall 2021 |
DECO 25A31 Economics of the EU | 3 | Advanced Economics Elective | Fall 2021 |
DECO 25A25 Urban Economics | 3 | Advanced Economics Elective | Fall 2021 |
DECO 25A02 Behavioral Game Theory | 3 | Advanced Economics Elective | Fall 2021 |
DECO 25A27 Advanced Econometrics | 3 | Advanced Economics Elective | Fall 2021 |
DECO 25A10 - Marketing and Customer Relationship Management | 3 | MKTG-UB 1 Introduction to Marketing | Spring 2022 |
Security Issues in the Sahel Region | 3 | BPE Area Studies Elective | Spring 2022 |
DAFF 25A65 - Europe Foreign and Security Policies | 3 | BPE Area Studies Elective | Spring 2022 |
DAFF 25A41 - Contemporary Latin America | 3 | BPE Area Studies Elective | Spring 2022 |
The Euro, Migration, and Climate Change: European Challenges and Opportunities | 3 | BPE Area Studies Elective | Spring 2022 |
ASOC 25A17 - Global Social Policy | 3 | Sustainable Business Elective (Discipline Area) | Fall 2024 |
DDRO 25A04 - Contemporary Issues in Corporate Law & Government | 3 | Sustainable Business Elective (Issue Area) | Fall 2024 |
ASPO 25A29 Comparative Social Policy in EU | 3 | Sustainable Business Elective (Issue Area) | Fall 2024 |
Introduction to Environmental Economics | 3 | Sustainable Business Elective (Issue Area) | Spring 2024 |
DECO 25A06 Agriculture, Food, and Globalization | 3 | Sustainable Business Elective (Issue Area) | Fall 2021 |
DDRO 25A02 Sustainable Development Law | 3 | Sustainable Business Elective (Issue Area) | Fall 2021 |
DSPO 25A23 Environmental Politics | 3 | Sustainable Business Elective (Issue Area) | Fall 2021 |
DECO 25A18 - Contemporary Perspective in Financial & Banking Regulations | 3 | Advanced Finance Elective | Fall 2024 |
AECO 25A00 - Trade & International Finance | 5 | Advanced Finance Elective | Fall 2024 |
DECO 25A11 - The Chinese Economy | 3 | Advanced Finance Elective | Spring 2022 |