SciencesPo Campus 1

Sciences Po’s history starts with a deliberate post-war decision: Émile Boutmy founded the school in 1872, just after the Franco-Prussian War, as the private École libre des sciences politiques. From the beginning, its mission was practical as well as academic—training a new French elite in political science, law, and history—and it helped pioneer political science as a recognized field in France. That institutional identity evolved after the Second World War, when the school was nationalized and re-established as a public institution. Today, Sciences Po is formally the Paris Institute of Political Studies—an établissement public—and it operates as a public research university with “grande école” status. …

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