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Sciences Po Launches First Latin American Dual Degree Through São Paulo Partnership
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Sciences Po Launches First Latin American Dual Degree Through São Paulo Partnership

From ABC Color · () Spanish

Translated from Spanish and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

At a glance

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  • Sciences Po will open its first dual degree program in Latin America with Fundação Getulio Vargas in São Paulo.
  • The program will combine public administration and government with corporate governance and business management, with students spending two years in France and two in Brazil.
  • Director Luis Vassy said the school is seeing strong interest from U.S. students, who have become its largest foreign student group, and that non-European fees provide 40% of its revenue.

Sciences Po is taking its first dual-degree program in Latin America to São Paulo, joining forces with the Fundação Getulio Vargas business school. Applications will open within weeks for a program combining public administration and government with corporate governance and business management.

This is the first program we have offered in a language other than French or English, which is Portuguese.

— Luis VassySciences Po’s director described the language feature of the new dual degree.

Students will spend two years at Sciences Po’s Poitiers campus in central-western France and two years in São Paulo. The French institution will teach political history, international relations, mathematics and economics, while FGV will handle business administration and governance.

The audience we want to attract is Portuguese- or Spanish-speaking students, whether from Spain, Portugal or obviously from other countries such as Mexico or Argentina.

— Luis VassyVassy outlined the students Sciences Po hopes to recruit.

Luis Vassy, Sciences Po’s director, said the program would be the school’s first taught in a language other than French or English. Portuguese will be used, with Brazilian students and the possibility of attracting Spanish speakers who want to learn the language. The intended audience includes Portuguese- and Spanish-speaking students from Spain, Portugal, Mexico, Argentina and elsewhere in the region.

There has been a reorientation of global flows of university students.

— Luis VassyVassy described the increase in applications from U.S. students.

Vassy also highlighted the changing profile of Sciences Po’s international students. Americans are now the largest foreign group, overtaking Germans, and applications from the United States have increased since Donald Trump was elected president for a second time in late 2024. Vassy said non-Europeans pay the highest tuition and provide 40% of the school’s income, helping reduce reliance on French state funding, which accounts for about 30% of its budget. With France’s 2027 presidential election less than eight months away, he said Sciences Po does not bar any candidate, including far-right leader Marine Le Pen.

Non-Europeans pay the maximum fee and are our main source of funding: they represent 40% of our income.

— Luis VassyHe explained the financial importance of international tuition.
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Originally published by ABC Color in Spanish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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