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About the scholarship
The Émile Boutmy Scholarship is Sciences Po’s best-known award for international students, named after the founder of the Paris institution. It is awarded on academic merit to first-time applicants through the admission application itself — there is no separate scholarship form. Undergraduates can receive a total tuition-fee exemption or EUR 9,500 per year, while master’s scholars get a EUR 18,500 tuition exemption for each of the two years of the programme.
The award runs alongside admissions: master’s candidates are considered by admissions committees, and the 18 October first committee has passed — the remaining route for the 2027 master’s intake is the 29 November 2026 second committee, with results before 2 March.
Eligibility
- First-time applicants to Sciences Po.
- Nationals of a non-European Union state.
- Your household does not file taxes within the European Union.
- Admitted to an Undergraduate or Master’s programme at Sciences Po.
- Excluded groups: Swiss and Norwegian applicants; dual citizens with an EU nationality; Quebec candidates for a master’s; journalism joint master’s candidates; one-year master’s programmes; PhD students; exchange students; dual-degree master’s except the specified Sciences Po/Columbia journalism, Fudan and Peking programmes; and candidates admitted via the French graduate admission procedure.
Benefits
- Undergraduate: either a total tuition-fee exemption or a EUR 9,500 per year tuition exemption.
- Master’s: a EUR 18,500 per year tuition exemption, renewable for the second year of the master’s.
- Automatic consideration — awarded through the admission application with no extra scholarship process.
Documents required
- The standard Sciences Po admission application with the Émile Boutmy request indicated in the ‘Financial information’ section.
- Language test results where applicable to the programme.
- Proof of income/family situation may be requested during the review.
How to apply
- Start the Sciences Po applicationApply to your chosen undergraduate or master’s programme through Sciences Po’s admissions platform.
- Indicate the Boutmy requestIn the ‘Financial information’ section of the application, state that you are applying for the Émile Boutmy scholarship.
- Meet the committee deadlineMaster’s: submit for the 29 November 2026 second committee (results before 2 March). Undergraduate applicants from foreign secondary schools: 13 January 2027. There are no applications after admission or during studies.
FAQs
No — the request is made inside the Sciences Po admission application, in the Financial information section.
No — the Émile Boutmy scholarship cannot be combined with other Sciences Po scholarships.
No — dual citizens holding an EU nationality are excluded.
No — it is a tuition exemption only. Budget separately for accommodation, living expenses and travel.
Yes for master’s — the 29 November 2026 second committee is the remaining route, with results before 2 March.
Verified 21 Oct 2026 via the official Sciences Po Émile Boutmy page (award levels: UG exemption/EUR 9,500/yr; master’s EUR 18,500/yr × 2; eligibility criteria incl. non-EU nationality and EU-tax-household rule; exclusion list; Financial-information-section request; 29 Nov 2nd-committee and 13 Jan 2027 deadlines; no post-admission applications; non-combinability). Two agreeing research passes confirmed each fact before writing.
