Lyon Institute of Political Studies

Sciences Po Lyon is the big science school of the City of Lyon / Saint-Etienne metropolis. Member of the COMUE University of Lyon since its inception and the Alliance of Grandes Ecoles Rhône-Alpes (AGERA) and the Conférence des Grandes Ecoles (CGE), Sciences Po Lyon has been providing multidisciplinary and professional training for more than 60 years, Backed by a quest for excellence. Our educational model, linked to a mode of training the public and private elites established in France through the tradition of the Grandes Ecoles, is also similar to the Anglo-Saxon institutions of the School of Public Affairs or School of Government type. Education, nourished by a quest for excellence, cultivates a multidisciplinary approach in the humanities and social sciences based on the four basic disciplines of history, law, political science and economics. Management sciences, management, information-communication and of course languages ​​and civilizations are a useful complement to this knowledge base shared by all graduates. The Masters program of Sciences Po Lyon includes the 10 professional specializations of the diploma, the M2 of Lyon 2 whose IEP has the management, As well as those offered by the other IEPs and our main partners. Professionalization and internationalization also involve the development of double degrees with university partners and numerous internship agreements abroad. Our graduates benefit from very diverse channels of professionalization, combined with a great capacity of adaptation, essential qualities for future managers, managers, decision-makers and managers, from the public and private sectors: more than 60% of our graduates Work in the private sector in the broad sense, including the voluntary sector and NGOs.