University in France
Toulouse, Occitanie, France
University profile
Sciences Po Toulouse is a public administrative higher-education institution founded in 1948. It is one of the 10 Instituts d'Études Politiques (IEP) in France, a member of the Conférence des grandes écoles (CGE) and of the Réseau ScPo, which runs the common first-year entrance competition with six other regional IEPs (Aix, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Lille, Lyon, Rennes and Strasbourg). It has since become a component institution (établissement-composante) of the experimental public institution Université Toulouse Capitole.
Teaching is multidisciplinary across law, economics, history, sociology and political science. The Diplôme de Sciences Po Toulouse runs over five years: a two-year foundation cycle of thematic semesters (Politics, Europe, State and Society, International Relations), a third year spent on academic or mixed mobility, and two years of specialisation. Second-cycle specialisations include European Affairs, International Affairs and Business Strategy, Administrative Careers, Communication and Influence Strategies (CoSI), Development and International Solidarity, the École de journalisme de Sciences Po Toulouse, Social Innovation and Inclusion (ISI), International Relations: New Challenges and Crisis Management, and Ecological Transition, Risks and Health. Three of the specialisations (Conseil et expertise en action publique, Études culturelles, Gouvernance des Relations internationales) are also offered as national master's degrees (grade de master) in political science, run as double diplomas with UT Capitole.
Since January 2022 the school has occupied the listed former Manufacture des Tabacs in central Toulouse, a building of 6,000 m2 with a library, a dedicated room for the journalism school, a radio studio, four amphitheatres equipped for video-conferencing and modular classrooms. The school has 1,840 students, continuing-education and distance-learning trainees and work-study students, about 60 teacher-researchers and more than 350 visiting lecturers.
Double diplomas are offered with the Toulouse School of Law, INSA Toulouse and the Universidad Complutense de Madrid from the first year, and at master level with Purpan engineering school, ENAC, Toulouse Business School, Toulouse School of Management and UT Capitole. Students can also prepare the entrance competitions of the French civil service.
Student life is organised around about thirty student associations covering culture, sport, debate and social action, with sports teams run by the Association Sportive. The school also takes part in the Armand Duportal residence for academic success, a partnership with the Crous de Toulouse Occitanie and UT Capitole for first-year students who are scholarship holders or come from rural areas or priority neighbourhoods. More than 200 international students are welcomed each year, with 170 partner institutions and 45 nationalities represented.
Sciences Po Toulouse sets registration fees on a sliding scale according to family income (reference tax income per tax share) for the Diplôme and for master degrees in initial training, with 13 bands from 0 to 5,470 euros per year for 2026-2027: Band 1 (up to 13,240 euros) 0 euros, Band 2 220, Band 3 400, Band 4 620, Band 5 880, Band 6 1,160, Band 7 1,500, Band 8 1,937, Band 9 2,420, Band 10 3,040, Band 11 3,850, Band 12 4,660 and Band 13 (above 46,560 euros) 5,470 euros. A library fee of 34 euros is added. Scholarship holders pay 0 euros. The same scale applies to international students, with no differentiated fees, and parents living or working abroad are assessed on equivalent foreign income documents. Exchange students are exempt. Late payment incurs 50 euros of administrative fees.
All students enrolling in initial training must pay the Contribution Vie Étudiante et de Campus (CVEC), set at 105 euros, or obtain an exemption, and present the certificate at registration. It is obtained on MesServices.etudiant.gouv.fr.
A flat-rate financial aid for non-scholarship students or scholarship holders at level 0 or 0 bis enrolled in the Diplôme or national master degrees. Eligibility requires a family quotient below 17,000 euros per year, and the amount depends on charge points for geographic distance (1 point for 30 to 249 km, 2 points from 250 km) and family size. The 2026-2027 deadline is 4 October. Exchange students are not eligible. Contact: [email protected].
Requests are sent by letter to the director at [email protected] together with an appointment with a social worker of the university health and social service. International students may apply to the same fund.
Pass Sport gives scholarship holders 50 euros towards sport. The Crous offers social-criteria scholarships, one-euro meals and one-off aid. Mobility grants are handled at [email protected]. Official page: Aides financières et dispositifs sociaux; Droits d'inscription modulés.
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View scholarships for Sciences Po Toulouse →Entry to the first year is through the Concours Commun of the Réseau ScPo, shared by the IEPs of Aix, Lille, Lyon, Rennes, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Strasbourg and Toulouse, with about 1,100 places in total. Registration is exclusively on Parcoursup. For the 2026 session registration ran from 19 January to 12 March 2026, files had to be completed by 1 April 2026, the written tests took place on 25 April 2026 and results were published on Parcoursup from 2 June 2026. Candidates must have obtained the baccalauréat in 2025 or be preparing it in 2026, or hold a French or foreign diploma accepted as equivalent, and the competition can be taken twice. There is no separate admission procedure for students abroad: all candidates sit the same tests in their assigned exam centre. The fee is 210 euros (40 euros for scholarship holders). The three written tests are Questions contemporaines (3 hours, coefficient 3), History (2 hours, coefficient 3) and a modern language (1 hour, coefficient 2; English, German, Spanish or Italian). Admission is based only on these three marks.
Applications to the double diplomas with INSA Toulouse (23 places), the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and the Toulouse School of Law are made as additional wishes on Parcoursup.
The fourth-year competition admits holders of, or candidates for, a licence or equivalent of at least 180 ECTS from a European Union institution, and holders of non-EU diplomas equivalent to at least three years of higher education (assessed by an academic committee), as well as professional licence holders and students with three years of classe préparatoire. Candidates create an account on the online portal, upload identity documents (and residence permit where relevant), pay the registration fee (20 euros for scholarship holders of the French higher-education system, 110 euros for others) and submit the file, including the choice of one specialisation, transcripts in a single PDF, a one-page CV, a certificate of English level (for example TOEFL, TOEIC, IELTS, Cambridge, Duolingo English Test) and, for graduates of non-francophone foreign institutions, proof of French at level B2. Applications close on 30 April at noon. Up to two specialisations may be applied for, each with its own fee. The diploma is not open directly in the fifth year; students already enrolled in a Sciences Po of the network may do the fifth year in Toulouse by mutualisation, on file, subject to the agreement of their home institute.
Exchange students nominated by a partner university (including Erasmus+) stay enrolled at home and are exempt from tuition fees at Sciences Po Toulouse. The Diplôme Universitaire 'Études Internationales et Comparatives' (60 ECTS, French-language or English-language stream) is open by individual application to students who have validated at least one year of higher education (60 ECTS) in political science or a related field and can show level B2 in the language of instruction. Contact: [email protected].
For theses in law and political science, the candidate contacts a supervisor holding an HDR in the host team and registers through the doctoral school of Université Toulouse Capitole, normally after a research master's; holders of a professional master's follow a complementary-studies procedure. For theses in sociology, history, economics, management and spatial planning, the Sciences Po Toulouse diploma can give direct access, registration being handled by the TESC doctoral school; a research dissertation graded at least 14/20 and defended by early June is the normal first step. The doctoral file includes transcripts, a report on the research dissertation, recommendation letters, a CV, the thesis charter and a funding plan. Funding routes include doctoral contracts, CIFRE, ATER and regional research allowances.
General admissions contact: [email protected].
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