Sciences Po Paris (IEP)

Take the regular french courses and avoid the courses for international students as much as possible. The calibre is much high in genuine sciences po courses.

The key to success at Sciences Po is to find the right book... text books are not provided, so you will succeed based upon the fact of whether or not you can research well in libraries.

Avoid Dominique Colas as a prof and pay special attention to the cours magistraux without conférence.

Better facilities, less oppressive routine.

Don't expect to be able to pick EVERY course that you want...

Making results of partial tests available to the students before the final exam!

First year course was available in the form of apprenticeship, a bit disorganised, but will improve for the following years.

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Most enseignment d'ouvertures are not taken seriously by either the students or the professor, and therefore it's a little disappointing that two courses are wasted on them.

Exposés are mainly useless for expanding anyone's knowledge beyond those doing the exposés themselves. French students are, in the majority, very clique-ish and unhelpful. Access to resources is ridiculous limited (you can only check out three books, 7 days max...the library isn't open for very long, etc.). Sciences Po as a bureaucratic structure is useless, and might as well be under anarchic dogma with the way it's run. Overall a highly, highly disappointing academic experience. You can learn if you put intense effort into doing independent study...but why should I pay money to learn everything myself?

Be careful!!

More attention to the students, better relationships vis-a-vis the teachers and better and more computers !