Master - Carrières administratives (CA) at Sciences Po Bordeaux

Provides a solid legal foundation, management and project tools, and preparation for public-service competitive examinations. It opens students to different administrative cultures and to the legal, economic, financial, digital and managerial issues of the public sector.

Faculty: Carrières publiques  |  Duration: 2 years (years 4 and 5 of the diploma)  |  Study mode: full-time; taught in French  |  Location: Pessac, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France

What you will study

Legal and public-sector fundamentals, management and project work with collective projects for clients in year 4, and training matched to the competitive exams. The fifth year is open to apprenticeship, with an option preparing for the administrators' competitions (Objectif INSP).

Career pathways

Many graduates sit civil-service competitions (parliamentary, territorial, interministerial INSP and IRA, justice, finance, hospital management, labour inspection) or work as staff to elected officials, in consultancies or as contract staff in public administration.

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