Specific situations

Financial aid for non-scholarship students

Students without a scholarship and whose tuition fees will amount to 0 € for the 2024-2025 academic year will receive a financial aid amounting to €400 (roughly 50% of a 0Bis Crous level additional cost of living scholarship.

This financial aid will be disbursed in one installment from September 2024 onwards and is subject to the finalisation of the administrative registration. The financial aid will only be disbursed for years or semesters (50%) of compulsory study at Sciences Po or compulsory internship periods.

Students with temporary or permanent disabilities

Special needs students, (upon presentation of an official disability document) are exempt from paying fees.

Sciences Po is committed to welcoming and integrating students with temporary and permanent disabilities. This commitment is based on a strong sense of responsibility as well as compliance with its legal obligations according to the Law of February, 11, 2005.

The institution offers tuition waivers for students with disabilities recognized by the CDAPH (Commission Départementale des Personnes Handicapées) or cited in article L5212-13 of the Labor Code (fr.). Foreign students with disabilities are eligible for a waiver upon presentation of a temporary attestation from a medical practitioner appointed by the CDAPH (make an apointment with the Health Center) and a proof of application to the Maison Départementale des personnes handicapées (MDPH) for an official recognition in France, to be uploaded December 31, 2024 at the latest. To renew this tuition waiver after the first year of registration, foreign students must obtain any attestation cited in Article L5212-13 of the Labor Code.

This tuition fee waiver applies to students enrolled in Bachelor's or Master's degree. Students admitted to a one-year Master's programme are not eligible for this waiver. Sciences Po awards partial tuition fee waivers to a select number of outstanding students from one-year Master's programmes. Please contact the person in charge of the programme for further information about applying for this partial tuition fee waiver.

For more information, see the orientation page for disabled Sciences Po students.

Exceptional arrangements

Click here to read the exceptional arrangements.