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Opened in 2005, Menton is Sciences Po’s southernmost campus. Located in the heart of the city’s historic centre, it occupies a nineteenth-century Italianate building overlooking the Mediterranean. It welcomes students who have chosen to pursue the Mediterranean and Middle East minor. 

The Menton campus welcomes more than 400 students, with a high proportion of international students (around 55%). Strongly oriented towards the political, economic and social dynamics of the Mediterranean basin and the Middle East, it offers a deeply intercultural study environment, closely connected to the major contemporary issues shaping these regions.

Located on the Italian border, in immediate proximity to the Principality of Monaco, the campus benefits from a distinctive geographical setting. This unique position fosters a nuanced understanding of the flows, interdependencies and transformations shaping the Euro-Mediterranean area.

The campus minor, dedicated to the basin Mediterranean and the Middle East, enables students to explore these issues through a multidisciplinary approach, at the intersection of political science, history, sociology and law.

Since 2001, the city of Poitiers has been home to Sciences Po’s campus focusing on Latin America, the Iberian Peninsula and the Caribbean. Surrounded by the cobbled streets and Romanesque architecture for which Poitiers is known, the campus is located in the city centre, in an eighteenth-century listed building equipped with state-of-the-art study spaces. 

Located in the heart of Poitiers’ historic centre, the Poitiers campus welcomes around 300 students, approximately one third of whom are international, representing a wide range of countries and academic backgrounds.

Housed in a fully renovated heritage building, the campus provides a study environment that combines academic excellence with optimal working conditions. It offers spaces dedicated to teaching, research and collaborative work, encouraging intellectual exchange and student engagement.

As part of the shared multidisciplinary curriculum across all campuses, structured around political science, economics, law, sociology and history, the campus promotes a pedagogical approach grounded in international openness and the comparative study of societies. This diversity fosters a deeper understanding of contemporary issues and encourages dialogue between different intellectual traditions. Multilingualism and comparative perspectives therefore play a central role in the curriculum.

The campus is distinguished by a regional minor focused on Latin America and the Caribbean, offering students the opportunity to develop in-depth knowledge of the region through its historical, political, economic and cultural dimensions.

In the heart of the Grand-Est region, the Reims campus opened in September 2010 in the “Cité des Sacres”. Located in a 17th century building, this campus hosts students who have chosen to follow the North American Minor or the African Minor.

Located 45 minutes by high-speed rail from Paris, the Reims campus welcomes nearly 1,600 students, around half of whom are international. This high level of cultural diversity gives the campus a distinctly international dimension and fosters an academic environment rich in comparative perspectives.

As part of the Bachelor’s programme at the University College of Sciences Po, students follow one of the two regional minors offered on campus: the North America minor and the Africa minor. 

The North America minor within the Bachelor’s programme at Sciences Po is part of the multidisciplinary education in the humanities and social sciences shared across the Undergraduate College, while offering an in-depth focus on the study of the United States and, more broadly, on North American dynamics within their global context. Taught in English, this programme provides a comparative approach to political institutions, legal systems, historical trajectories, economic models and social dynamics specific to the region, while also enabling students to analyse transatlantic relations and interactions between North America and the rest of the world in a context shaped by contemporary geopolitical transformations.

As a central space of globalisation, North America offers a privileged laboratory for the study of major transformations, including shifts in capitalism, environmental challenges, debates surrounding civil liberties, migration dynamics, social and racial inequalities, and the role of North American powers in global governance. Courses combine the analysis of historical legacies, including state formation, territorial expansion and civil rights movements, with the study of contemporary issues such as political polarisation, the place of minority groups, economic and technological innovation, and diplomacy.

The Africa minor within the Bachelor’s programme at Sciences Po is part of the multidisciplinary education in the humanities and social sciences shared across the University College, while offering an in-depth focus on the study of African societies in all their historical, political, economic and cultural diversity.

This specialisation provides a cross-cutting analysis of a continent undergoing profound transformation, shaped by major demographic, urban and economic dynamics, as well as by social, political and technological innovations that are redefining regional and global balances. It encourages students to move beyond simplified representations to grasp the diversity of African trajectories and the richness of their intellectual and cultural production.

Courses combine the study of historical legacies, including pre-colonial periods, colonisation and independence movements, with the analysis of contemporary issues such as governance and political reconfigurations, gender dynamics, economic transformations, urban change, environmental challenges, cultural exchanges and mobility. 

Delivered in either French or English, the minor draws on interdisciplinary approaches from history, political science, sociology, economics and law, to equip students with the ability to analyse contemporary African realities with rigour and nuance.