Paris Institute of Political Studies

Paris Institute of Political Studies, commonly known as Sciences Po (French: Institut d'études politiques de Paris), is a public research university and grande école in Paris, France, which holds the legal status of grand établissement.巴黎政治学院（法文：Institut d'études politiques de Paris），通称「科学之波」（Sciences Po），是位于法国巴黎的一所公立研究型大学，兼具「大学校」与「大型机构」的法定地位。

It was founded in 1872 by the political thinker and writer Émile Boutmy as the École libre des sciences politiques, and after the Second World War it was reorganised into two linked bodies, a private foundation and a public institute.该校由政治思想家与作家埃米尔·布特米于 1872 年创办，初名「自由政治学堂」，第二次世界大战后改组为一个私立基金会与一个公立学院两个相互关联的实体。

It is placed 354th in the 2027 QS World University Rankings, in the 551-600 band of the 2027 Times Higher Education ranking and 1015th in the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities ranking, and it did not enter the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities.该校在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列第 354，在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育排名中处于 551 至 600 区间，在 2026 至 2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中位列第 1015，且未进入 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名主榜。

History

• The École libre des sciences politiques was created in 1872 by a group of French intellectuals, politicians and businessmen led by Émile Boutmy, including Hippolyte Taine, Ernest Renan, Albert Sorel and Paul Leroy-Beaulieu.自由政治学堂于 1872 年由埃米尔·布特米领导的一批法国知识分子、政治家与实业家创办，同道者包括伊波利特·泰纳、欧内斯特·勒南、阿尔贝·索雷尔与保罗·勒鲁瓦-博利厄。

• The creation of the school answered fears that the training of the French political elite was inadequate after the defeat in the 1870 Franco-Prussian War, the fall of Napoleon III and the upheaval of the Paris Commune.创办该校是为回应一种忧虑，即法国政治精英的培养不足，这一忧虑源于 1870 年普法战争战败、拿破仑三世政权崩溃以及巴黎公社带来的动乱。

• The founders sought to teach contemporary history and the emerging social sciences rather than the ancient humanities that had dominated French higher education for centuries.创办者主张教授当代史与新兴的社会科学，而不再像此前数百年那样，只以古典人文教育为主。

• From 1901 to 1935, 92.5 per cent of entrants to the Grands corps de l'État, the most powerful administrative bodies of the French civil service, had studied at the school.1901 至 1935 年间，进入法国文官体系中最有实权的「国家高级团」的成员中，有 92.5% 曾在该校就读。

• In 1886 the school set up a colonial studies programme to train students for posts in the colonial administration, a branch that closed in 1893 after the state created its own Colonial School in 1889.1886 年该校设立殖民研究课程，为殖民行政机构培养人才，该分支于 1893 年停办，此前国家已于 1889 年自设殖民学校。

• After the liberation of France in 1945 the school was nationalised, and two separate legal entities were created, the Institut d'études politiques and the private Fondation nationale des sciences politiques.1945 年法国解放后，该校被国有化，并设立两个独立法律实体，即政治学院与私立的国立政治科学基金会。

• The institute had trained eight of the thirteen ministers of the Provisional Government of the French Republic, which helped it survive the post-war calls for its abolition.该校曾培养出法兰西共和国临时政府十三位部长中的八位，这帮助它在战后面临的撤销呼声中得以存续。

• From 1947 to 1979 the school was directed by Jacques Chapsal, who led it through the post-war economic boom and the crisis of May 1968.1947 至 1979 年，该校由雅克·沙普萨尔执掌，他带领学校经历了战后经济繁荣与 1968 年五月危机。

• In 1956 Sciences Po created its first doctoral programme, and the Centre for Political Research, known as CEVIPOF, was founded in 1960.1956 年该校设立首个博士项目，政治研究中心于 1960 年成立，简称 CEVIPOF。

• Between 1952 and 1969, 77.5 per cent of the graduate intake of the École nationale d'administration were alumni of the school.1952 至 1969 年间，法国国家行政学院录取的研究生中有 77.5% 是该校校友。

• In 1976 the school set up its own publishing house, the Presses de Sciences Po, which issues academic works and journals in the social sciences.1976 年该校设立自有出版社，即政治科学出版社，出版社会科学领域的学术著作与期刊。

• Political scientist Alain Lancelot led the school from 1987 to 1996 and prepared the way for Richard Descoings, who became director in 1997.政治学者阿兰·朗斯洛于 1987 至 1996 年执掌该校，并为 1997 年出任院长的里夏尔·德科安铺路。

• Under Richard Descoings the curriculum was broadened to law, economics and sociology, and every undergraduate was required to spend a year abroad.在里夏尔·德科安任内，课程扩展至法学、经济学与社会学，全体本科生还被要求出国学习一年。

• In 2001 the school founded its Equal Opportunity Programme to recruit able students from disadvantaged areas, and the share of scholarship students rose from 6 per cent in 2001 to 27 per cent in 2011.2001 年该校设立机会平等项目，从弱势地区招收优秀学生，奖学金学生比例由 2001 年的 6% 上升到 2011 年的 27%。

• The regional campuses were opened from 2000 onwards, at Nancy in 2000, Dijon in 2001, Menton in 2005 and Le Havre, Poitiers and Reims between 2007 and 2010.各地校区自 2000 年起陆续开设，南锡于 2000 年、第戎于 2001 年、芒通于 2005 年，勒阿弗尔、普瓦捷与兰斯则在 2007 至 2010 年间启用。

• Frédéric Mion became director on 1 March 2013 and created the School of Public Affairs and the Urban School in 2015 and the School of Management and Innovation in 2016.弗雷德里克·米翁于 2013 年 3 月 1 日就任院长，并于 2015 年设立公共事务学院与城市学院，2016 年设立管理与创新学院。

• In late 2016 the school acquired the Hôtel de l'Artillerie, a former seventeenth-century monastery of 14,000 square metres, to expand its Paris campus.2016 年末，该校购入阿尔蒂莱里府邸，这座十七世纪旧修道院占地 14,000 平方米，用以扩展巴黎校区。

• In 2021 the Duhamel scandal over sexual violence forced the resignation of Olivier Duhamel, president of the National Foundation of Political Science, and of the director Frédéric Mion.2021 年，围绕性暴力的杜阿梅尔丑闻迫使国立政治科学基金会主席奥利维耶·杜阿梅尔与院长弗雷德里克·米翁辞职。

• Mathias Vicherat took office on 22 November 2021 and resigned on 13 March 2024, and Luis Vassy assumed the directorship on 28 September 2024.马蒂亚斯·维什拉于 2021 年 11 月 22 日就任，并于 2024 年 3 月 13 日辞职，路易·瓦西则于 2024 年 9 月 28 日接任院长。

• In April 2024 the school became one of the centres of French student protests against the war in Gaza, and in 2022 its Paris campus admitted only about 5 per cent of applicants.2024 年 4 月，该校成为法国学生抗议加沙战争的中心之一，而 2022 年其巴黎校区仅录取了约 5% 的申请者。

Academics

• The academic bodies of Sciences Po are the Undergraduate College, a set of graduate professional schools and the Doctoral School, teaching law, economics, history, political science and sociology.该校的学术架构包括本科学院、若干研究生职业学院以及博士学院，教学涵盖法学、经济学、历史学、政治学与社会学。

• The three-year undergraduate degree is multidisciplinary, with first-year courses in economics, history, humanities, law, political science and sociology and a major chosen in the second year.其三年制本科为多学科培养，第一年开设经济学、历史学、人文学科、法学、政治学与社会学课程，第二年再选择专业方向。

• Every undergraduate spends the third year abroad, and each campus has a regional specialisation covering Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East and the Mediterranean, or North America.所有本科生第三年都在国外度过，每个校区各有一个区域研究重点，覆盖非洲、亚洲、欧洲、拉丁美洲、中东与地中海，或北美。

• Sciences Po offers dual bachelor's degrees with Columbia University, Keio University, University College London, the University of British Columbia, the University of Sydney, the National University of Singapore and the University of California, Berkeley.该校与哥伦比亚大学、庆应义塾大学、伦敦大学学院、不列颠哥伦比亚大学、悉尼大学、新加坡国立大学以及加利福尼亚大学伯克利分校合办双学士学位。

• In 2021, 15,284 candidates applied to the Undergraduate College across the three admission routes and 1,630 were accepted, an admission rate of 7 per cent.2021 年共有 15,284 名考生通过三条招生途径申请本科学院，其中 1,630 人获录取，录取率为 7%。

• The school has an acceptance rate of around 10 per cent on Parcoursup, the French national admissions platform, and about 5 per cent on the Paris campus.该校在法国全国招生平台 Parcoursup 上的录取率约为 10%，在巴黎校区则约为 5%。

• Research at Sciences Po covers economics, law, history, sociology and political science, together with interdisciplinary work on cities, political ecology and globalisation.该校的科研涵盖经济学、法学、历史学、社会学与政治学，并开展关于城市、政治生态与全球化等跨学科研究。

• The research community numbers more than 200 researchers and 350 doctoral candidates, and in 2015 about 32 per cent of the budget was devoted to research.其科研队伍包括两百多名研究人员与 350 名博士候选人，2015 年约有 32% 的预算用于科研。

• Seven research centres are affiliated with the French National Centre for Scientific Research, among them the Centre for International Studies and the Centre for Political Research.该校有七个研究中心隶属法国国家科学研究中心，其中包括国际研究中心（CERI）与政治研究中心（CEVIPOF）。

• Other units include the Centre for the Sociology of Organisations, the Centre for History, the Médialab and the Observatoire Français des Conjonctures Économiques, an independent economic forecasting body.其他研究单位还包括组织社会学中心、历史研究中心、媒体实验室，以及兼具独立经济预测职能的法国经济形势观察所。

• The Bibliothèque de Sciences Po was founded in 1871 and holds more than 950,000 titles in the social sciences, making it one of the largest such libraries in continental Europe.该校图书馆创办于 1871 年，藏有 95 万余种社会科学文献，是欧洲大陆同类图书馆中规模最大的之一。

• In 1982 the Ministry of National Education made the library the national centre for acquiring and disseminating scientific information in political science.1982 年，法国国民教育部将该图书馆定为政治学领域科技信息的国家级采集与传播中心。

• The Presses de Sciences Po, founded in the 1950s, is the university's publishing house and issues academic books and journals in the social sciences.成立于 1950 年代的政治科学出版社是该校的出版机构，出版社会科学领域的学术图书与期刊。

• The Max Planck Sciences Po Center on Coping with Instability in Market Societies, known as MaxPo, was founded in 2012 with the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies.马克斯·普朗克政治学院市场社会失稳应对中心成立于 2012 年，由该校与马克斯·普朗克社会研究所合作设立。

• Students may take dual master's degrees with international partners, spending one year at Sciences Po in Paris and one year at the partner university.学生可与国际伙伴院校合读双硕士学位，其中一年在巴黎本校、一年在伙伴大学就读。

• The doctoral school offers PhD training in law, economics, history, political science and sociology and has roughly 600 doctoral candidates.其博士学院开设法学、经济学、历史学、政治学与社会学的博士培养，约有 600 名博士候选人。

Campus

• Sciences Po has seven campuses in France, one in Paris and six in the regional cities of Dijon, Le Havre, Menton, Nancy, Poitiers and Reims.该校在法国设有七个校区，一个在巴黎，另六个分别位于第戎、勒阿弗尔、芒通、南锡、普瓦捷与兰斯。

• The historic centre at 27 rue Saint-Guillaume in the seventh arrondissement has housed the head office, classrooms and the central library since 1879.位于第七区圣纪尧姆街 27 号的历史校址自 1879 年起即为校部、教室与中央图书馆所在。

• The main building occupies an hôtel particulier called the Hôtel de Mortemart and contains the two largest lecture halls, the Amphithéâtres Émile Boutmy and Jacques Chapsal.主楼是一座名为莫尔特马府邸的宅邸，内有最大的两个阶梯教室，即埃米尔·布特米厅与雅克·沙普萨尔厅。

• The Paris campus spreads across buildings around the Boulevard Saint-Germain and enrols about 3,000 undergraduates, almost a third of them international exchange students.巴黎校区分布在圣日耳曼大道周边的多栋建筑中，约有 3,000 名本科生，其中近三分之一为国际交换生。

• In 2016 the school bought the Hôtel de l'Artillerie, a seventeenth-century former monastery of 14,000 square metres, from the Ministry of Defence and refurbished it at a cost of about 200 million euros.2016 年，该校从法国国防部购入阿尔蒂莱里府邸，这座十七世纪旧修道院占地 14,000 平方米，翻新耗资约 2 亿欧元。

• The new Artillerie facility opened in 2022 and houses seven graduate schools, the scientific department, an innovation institute and the Center for Entrepreneurship.新的阿尔蒂莱里设施于 2022 年启用，容纳七个研究生院、科研部门、一个创新研究所以及创业中心。

• Each May the seven campuses meet for the inter-campus Collégiades tournament, also called the MiniCrit, competing in sports such as volleyball and football and in music and dance.每年五月，七个校区会齐聚参加校际「学院节」赛事，又称迷你克里特，在排球、足球等体育项目以及音乐与舞蹈上相互竞技。

• The Reims campus, opened in September 2010 in a seventeenth-century former Jesuit college, is the largest regional campus with more than 1,600 undergraduates.兰斯校区于 2010 年 9 月启用，设在十七世纪的旧耶稣会学院内，是最大的地区校区，拥有一千六百多名本科生。

Reputation

• Sciences Po is ranked 354th in the 2027 QS World University Rankings and is generally regarded as the most prestigious of the French institutes of political studies.该校在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列第 354，并被普遍视为法国各政治学院中最负盛名的一所。

• In the 2023 QS World University Rankings by Subject it ranked second in the world for the study of politics, behind only Harvard University.在 2023 年 QS 世界大学学科排名中，其政治学专业位列全球第二，仅次于哈佛大学。

• It sits in the 551-600 band of the 2027 Times Higher Education ranking, having been in the 601-800 band in the previous year.该校在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育排名中处于 551 至 600 区间，上一年度则处于 601 至 800 区间。

• According to OpenAlex the university has produced 42,499 research works attracting 366,528 citations, a modest output for its size that reflects its focus on the social sciences.据 OpenAlex 统计，该校已产出 42,499 项研究成果，累计被引用 366,528 次，与其规模相比产出并不算高，这与其社会科学取向相符。

• In the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities ranking it is placed 1015th, well below its standing in subject-specific tables.在 2026 至 2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中，该校位列第 1015，明显低于其在学科榜单中的位置。

• As of 2022 the school had the highest yield rate among French institutes of political studies, with 86 per cent of admitted undergraduates accepting their offer.截至 2022 年，该校在法国各政治学院中的报到率最高，获录取的本科生中有 86% 接受了录取。

• In 2023 French entrants had an average Baccalauréat score of 17.9 out of 20, and 92 per cent of admitted French undergraduates earned the highest distinction.2023 年，入学的法国学生高中会考平均分为 20 分制的 17.9 分，获录取的法国本科生中有 92% 取得最高等级评语。

• National tables place the school first in sociology, social policy and administration, second in development studies and law, and third in economics.法国国内榜单将该校列于社会学、社会政策与行政学第一，发展研究与法学第二，经济学第三。

• Six of the eight presidents of the French Fifth Republic studied at Sciences Po, and in 2017 fourteen per cent of the members of the National Assembly elected that year were its graduates.法兰西第五共和国八位总统中有六位曾就读于该校，2017 年当选的国民议会议员中有 14% 是其毕业生。

Student life

• Sciences Po has no formal Latin motto, and its identity is expressed instead through the ideal of forming informed and responsible citizens of the world.该校没有正式的拉丁文校训，其身份认同体现在培养有见识、负责任的全球公民这一理念之中。

• Because students pass through introductory courses in political science, economics, history, law and international relations, the curriculum is deliberately transdisciplinary.由于学生须修读政治学、经济学、历史学、法学与国际关系的入门课程，其课程刻意采取跨学科取向。

• The Collégiades, or MiniCrit, brings the seven campuses together each May for competitions in sport, music and dance, and has become a distinctive tradition.「学院节」又称迷你克里特，每年五月把七个校区聚在一起，举行体育、音乐与舞蹈比赛，已成为一项独特传统。

• About 46 per cent of students come from outside France, representing more than 150 countries, and a third of the Paris undergraduates are international exchange students.约 46% 的学生来自法国以外，来自 150 多个国家，巴黎校区的本科生中有三分之一是国际交换生。

• Students publish campus media and run a wide range of societies, while the Sciences Po Alumni Association, founded in 1875, has more than 8,000 members.学生办有校园媒体并组织众多社团，而成立于 1875 年的校友会拥有八千多名会员。

• Public lectures are a long-standing feature, with guests including Ban Ki-moon, Condoleezza Rice, Mario Draghi, Joseph Stiglitz and Sheryl Sandberg.公开讲座是该校长期的传统，曾邀请潘基文、康多莉扎·赖斯、马里奥·德拉吉、约瑟夫·斯蒂格利茨与谢丽尔·桑德伯格等嘉宾。

• Since 2007 the school has organised the Franco-British Dialogue Lecture Series in collaboration with the London School of Economics and the French Embassy in London.自 2007 年起，该校与伦敦政治经济学院及法国驻伦敦大使馆合作举办英法对话讲座系列。

• Each campus specialises in a world region and prepares students for the third year abroad in Asia, Latin America, the Middle East or North America.每个校区各有专攻的世界区域，并帮助学生为赴亚洲、拉丁美洲、中东或北美的第三年海外学习做准备。

Notable people

• Émile Boutmy, a political thinker and writer, founded the school in 1872 and served as its first director until 1906.政治思想家与作家埃米尔·布特米于 1872 年创办该校，并担任首任院长至 1906 年。

• André Siegfried chaired the National Foundation of Political Science from 1945 to 1959, and René Rémond held the same post from 1981 to 2007.安德烈·西格弗里德于 1945 至 1959 年任国立政治科学基金会主席，勒内·雷蒙则在 1981 至 2007 年担任同一职务。

• Six presidents of the Fifth Republic attended the school, namely Georges Pompidou, François Mitterrand, Jacques Chirac, Nicolas Sarkozy, François Hollande and Emmanuel Macron.第五共和国先后有六位总统就读于该校，即乔治·蓬皮杜、弗朗索瓦·密特朗、雅克·希拉克、尼古拉·萨科齐、弗朗索瓦·奥朗德与埃马纽埃尔·马克龙。

• Alain Poher, who twice served as acting president of France, was also an alumnus, as were the prime ministers Pierre Trudeau of Canada and Władysław Grabski of Poland.曾两度代理法国总统的阿兰·波赫尔也是该校校友，加拿大总理皮埃尔·特鲁多与波兰总理瓦迪斯瓦夫·格拉布斯基同样如此。

• Among alumni in international organisations are Boutros Boutros-Ghali, former Secretary-General of the United Nations, and Simone Veil, former President of the European Parliament.在国际组织任职的校友包括前联合国秘书长布特罗斯·布特罗斯-加利，以及前欧洲议会议长西蒙娜·韦伊。

• Marcel Proust, the novelist, studied at the school, as did Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympic Games, and the fashion designer Christian Dior.小说家马塞尔·普鲁斯特曾在该校就读，现代奥林匹克运动会创始人皮埃尔·德·顾拜旦与时尚设计师克里斯蒂安·迪奥亦然。

• The Chinese linguist Ma Jianzhong and the diplomat Chen Jitong were among its early foreign students, and Chen later served as a senior official in late Qing China.汉语学家马建忠与外交官陈季同是该校早期的外国学生，后者后来在晚清担任高级官员。

• The historian Chen Yinke and the diplomat Wang Jingqi, both figures of Republican China, also studied at the École libre des sciences politiques.历史学家陈寅恪与外交官王景岐同为民国人物，也都曾就读于自由政治学堂。

• Salome Zourabichvili, President of Georgia from 2018, studied at Sciences Po, as did Mohammad Mosaddegh, Prime Minister of Iran from 1951 to 1953.2018 年起任格鲁吉亚总统的萨洛梅·祖拉比什维利曾就读于该校，1951 至 1953 年任伊朗首相的穆罕默德·摩萨台亦然。

• Louis Renault, who won the 1907 Nobel Peace Prize, taught international law at the school from 1875 until his death in 1918.1907 年诺贝尔和平奖得主路易·雷诺自 1875 年起在该校教授国际法，直至 1918 年去世。

• The philosopher Bruno Latour taught at Sciences Po from 2006 until his death in 2022, and the economists Jean-Paul Fitoussi and Michel Aglietta also taught there.哲学家布鲁诺·拉图尔自 2006 年起在该校任教，直至 2022 年去世，经济学家让-保罗·菲图西与米歇尔·阿列塔也在此任教。