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ÉMILE BOUTMY SCHOLARSHIP AND BACHELOR’S DEGREE PROGRAMME MASTER’S LEVEL

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Application Deadline: Tuesday, January 20, 2026.

LOCATION: France

The Émile Boutmy scholarship fund benefits from the generous support of its sponsors (benefactors, companies, and foundations), who are eager to allow the most deserving international students to study at Sciences Po. Private sponsors can be in direct contact with scholarship holders during official organized events.

ELIGIBILITY:

To be eligible for the scholarship, students must be first-time applicants to Sciences Po, from a non-European Union state, whose household does not file taxes within the European Union, and who have been admitted to the Undergraduate or Master’s programme.

Candidates who have dual citizenship, one of them being an EU citizenship

Candidates from Quebec for a master’s degree (since they may take advantage of sliding scale fees the same as European applicants). Candidates from Quebec for a bachelor’s degree are eligible

Candidates for the Joint Master’s in Journalism and International Affairs and for the Master’s in journalism

Master’s level dual-degree candidates, unless you are applying for one of the following programmes:

the dual degree in Journalism Sciences Po/Columbia University

the dual degree Sciences Po/Fudan University with the concentration Europe-Asia in Global Affairs (only applicants with Chinese nationality)

the dual degree Sciences Po/Peking University (only applicants with Chinese nationality)

Ph.D. programme students (thesis)

Candidates for the 1 year Master’s programmes

Bachelor dual degree candidates (unless as part of a specific agreement)

Exchange students

Candidates applying via the French graduate admission procedure

The Émile Boutmy scholarship:

may not be combined with any other scholarship awarded by Sciences Po and its partners (Mastercard, CARE, Fondation de France/René Seydoux, China Scholarship council, etc.);

may be combined with external scholarships (Eiffel, AEFE, French government scholarships, etc.). 

For more information, please contact the Student Services Centre.

BENEFIT:

BACHELOR’S DEGREE PROGRAMME: The Émile Boutmy scholarship is awarded to students arriving at Sciences Po for their first year of studies.

The Émile Boutmy scholarship entitles students to either a total exemption or an exemption of €9,500 from tuition fees.

MASTERS LEVEL: The Émile Boutmy scholarship is awarded to students arriving at Sciences Po for their first year of study.

The Émile Boutmy scholarship entitles the recipient to an €18,500 exemption from tuition fees for each of the two years of the Master’s programme.

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ÉCOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE (ENS) INTERNATIONAL ARTS, HUMANITIES & SCIENCES GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM

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Application Deadline: December 3, 2025 (12.00 (midday), Paris time)

LOCATION: France

The Ecole normale supérieure aims at varying its students’ profiles and incorporates students to be enrolled in the 3rd year of bachelor (licence 3) or 1st year of master (master 1), coming from all over the world and from all disciplines. The competitive examination of the International selection is intended for young graduates in Arts & Humanities as well as Sciences, who justify at least one year of undergraduate studies in a foreign university and distinguish themselves with outstanding results.

ELIGIBILITY:

Candidates must not be after their 26th birthday on December 1st.

Candidates must not have applied to the International Selection before. Applications of former candidates will be identified by the school and will not be transmitted for review to the juries.

Candidates must not have lived in France more than 10 months during the academic year of the selection (September 1st – August 31st) nor the previous year.

Candidates must justify at least one year of undergraduate studies awarded by a foreign university during the calendar year preceding the start of applications.

Candidates must justify at least two years of undergraduate studies in a foreign university on the 1st of September following admission.

You must fill and validate the initial application form: https://formulaires.ens.psl.eu/

Within 2 days, you receive an email to activate an account on Dematec, an application where you must upload the required documents in PDF format.

If your file on Dematec is complete, it is submitted to the jury.

If the jury selects your dossier, you are invited to take written and oral tests remotely.

The marks obtained at the tests determine the list of admitted students.

BENEFIT:

Joining ENS through the competitive examination of the International selection gives access to training of excellence, through contact with exceptional researchers, in a privileged training and research environment. Integrated into the community of the normaliens, international students continue their studies at ENS and at the university at the same time, while benefiting from a 1000 euros grant for 3 years and from a room on one of the ENS campuses. At the end of their studies, these students have graduated with a master’s degree in their specialty and with the diploma of École normale supérieure.

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