BA/MA Five Year Program with Sciences Po

The Faculty of Economics has an agreement with Sciences Po (Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris) for a BA/MA Five Year Program. Students enrolled in the Faculty of Economics including PEARL students can apply for entry to this Program. Students who satisfy the graduation requirements of both institutions will be awarded a Bachelor of Arts (Economics) from Keio and a master’s degree from Sciences Po. The actual degree awarded by Sciences Po will be either Masters in International Business and Sustainability or Masters in Finance and Strategy depending on which program the student applies for and is accepted into. Both are English-language programs.

Program Outline

The maximum number of participants is five per year. The study plans for students who participate in this Program are shown in the diagrams below.

PEARL Students (5 year program)
YEAR	1		2		3		4		5
SEMESTER	Autumn	Spring	A	S	A	S	A	S	A	S
ENROLMENT	Keio						Sciences Po
ENROLMENT	(1)						(2)		(3)

Type A/B Students (5.5 year program)*
YEAR	1		2		3		4		5		6
SEMESTER	Spring	Autumn	S	A	S	A	S	A	S	A	S
ENROLMENT	Keio							Sciences Po
ENROLMENT	(1)							(2)	(3)

Application & Screening (March of the third year)
Graduation (B.A. (Economics) from Keio)
Graduation (Master in chosen program)

Type A/B students refers to students whose study at Keio begins in April and whose principal language of tuition is Japanese.

About Sciences Po

Founded in 1875, Sciences Po is one of France’s Grandes Écoles. Sciences Po is famous for having produced presidents, prime ministers, bureaucrats and executives for France and also leaders for international organizations around the world. Since October 1987, when a comprehensive exchange agreement with Keio University was signed, Keio and Sciences Po have been actively exchanging faculty students and researchers.

Eligibility and Application Guideline

Applicants must satisfy all of the following four requirements at the time they apply to this Program:

Be a Keio student enrolled in the Faculty of Economics and have successfully completed at least the first five semesters in the case of PEARL students, and at least the first six semesters in the case of Type A/B students.;
a TOEFL iBT score of 100 or IELTS 7.0 or more*i);
a minimum Grade Point Average (cumulative GPA) of 2.8; and
Expected to acquire a total of 114 credits for PEARL students*ii), and 126 credits for Type A/B students, that can be counted towards Keio graduation requirement by the time they start the master’s program at Sciences Po.

i)PEARL students are exempted from the English requirement.
ii)Make sure you obtain 12 Core Course credits and sufficient credits for Advanced Courses while at Keio. When transferring credits earned at Sciences Po to Keio, no more than 6 credits could be recognized as credits for Advanced Courses.

Application Forms

All required forms are available from the following page:

Application forms for the BA/MA Five Year Program with Sciences Po

Screening

Applicants will be evaluated by their application documents and an interview.

Selection Schedule

Students enrolled in their 3rd year are considered for selection into this program.
Applicants pre-selected by Keio can proceed to the final selection to be made by Sciences Po.

Application	Mid-March
Pre-screening	Late March
Announcement of Pre-screening Results	Late March
Application to Sciences Po	Early – mid-April
Final Screening	Late April – early May
Announcement of Final Results	Late May – early June
Leaving for France	August – September

Note: This schedule is subject to change. Please refer to the forthcoming application guideline.

Program Fee

Students will pay their tuition fees to the institution where they are studying, that is, to Keio for their first 3 (or 3.5 years), and to Sciences Po for the last 2 years of the Program. (14,100 Euro=FY2016-17)