Institut d'études politiques de Lyon

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Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Lyon Lyon Institute of Political Studies


Established	1946
Director	Gilles Pollet
Faculty	274 (60 full-time)
Students	1,300
Location	Lyon, France
Campus	Metropolitan
Website	iep.univ-lyon2.fr

The Institut d'études politiques de Lyon is a political science school in Lyon.
It is also called Sciences Po Lyon.
It was created by executive decree by the General de Gaulle in 1948, among several other IEPs in France, all based on the model offered by Sciences Po Paris (IEP of Paris). It is Therefore, as all IEP, considered as a "Grande Ecole"

[edit] Program

Sciences Po Lyon offers a 5 year long programme and delivers a diploma worth "master grade".
The first two years focuse on the fundamental subjects of political sciences that are economics, law, history, philosophy, sociology and management. Students must also learn two foreign languages. They can choose them among English, German, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Arab, Italian and Russian. The third year is to be spend abroad, either in the frame of an exchange program in one of IEP de Lyon's 90 partner universities or on a one year long traineeship.
The last two years allow students to specialize in either one of the following specialities :

Affaires asiatiques
Affaires européennes : entreprises et institutions
Carrières publiques
Communication, Culture et Institutions
Coopération et développement au Maghreb et au Moyen-Orient
Gestion de projets, coopération et développement en Amérique latine
Ingénierie des Partenariats publics-privés
Journalisme et médias en région

Life at the IEP is very active with several student clubs such as the BDE (partying...), "Déclic" (photography), "Comequi" (fair trade) or "Bobinophile (cinema). Several small papers have also been created by students such as "La Mâche" (philosophy and poetry), "Po Go" (music and night life) or "L'Ecornifleur" (local news).