| Sciences Po Law School | |
| Native Name: | École de droit de Sciences Po |
| Native Name Lang: | fr |
| Type: | Public graduate school |
| Parent: | Sciences Po |
| Budget: | €192 million (total Sciences Po budget for 13,000 students) |
| Dean: | Sébastien Pimont |
| Students: | 944 |
| City: | Paris |
| Country: | France |
| Campus: | Urban |
| Faculty: | 20 Professors, 2 Associate Professors, 9 Affiliate Professors, numerous visiting lecturers |
Sciences Po Law School (fr|L'École de droit de Sciences Po) is a graduate school created in 2009 inside Sciences Po in Paris, France.
In 2009, Sciences Po created the "École de droit de Sciences Po" ("law school", as opposed in French to a faculté de droit, "faculty of law"), delivering graduate degrees only, after a controversy regarding the access to the bar for Sciences Po students.
Sciences Po Law School is an exclusively graduate program and admits students without undergraduate legal education.
It contains:
Sciences Po Law School also contains 4 joint master degrees with Columbia Law School,[1] the University of Virginia School of Law,[2] Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law[3] and Duke University School of Law.[4]
40% of its student population are exchange students from abroad (outgoing students going from the whole institute).[5]
Among international english-speaking rankings, Sciences Po is ranked in Law:
In the French national Eduniversal ranking, rankings are in France:
It was not ranked among the top 10 or 15 in France in Business Law, Business Law and Management, Tax law and Social Law.[7]
Sciences Po graduates report a 67% success in the Bar Exam in 2017[9] (the national average was around 27% the same year[10]).
In 2018, the success rate for the school’s preparatory school (available for students from other universities) at the French National School for the Judiciary entrance exam was 45% (79 out of 180), with 8 students in the top 10 and 20 in the top 30.[11]
In 2018, 70% of the students of the Master in Economic law (the top Sciences Po Law program) have found a job six months after they graduated.[12]