Dual Degree: Sciences Po, Paris
Dual degree journalism studies in New York and France
The Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University and the Graduate Journalism Program at Sciences Po announced in 2008 a dual degree program, which allows students to study journalism in both New York and Paris and receive degrees from both institutions.
The new program will benefit students by enabling them to study in two hubs of journalism: New York City and Paris. This partnership reflects the global nature of journalism in the 21st century, offering students top-tier training from both an American and a European perspective, and encourages mastery of journalistic techniques, bilingual training, and the opportunity to develop a career with a unique international background.
The Sciences Po School of Journalism is an integral part of France’s top-tier university system. It offers a two-year master’s program combining practical journalism training with advanced academic instruction in the social sciences. Facing recent technological changes and globalization, the school has two goals. The first is to educate future journalists to analyze and understand the complex world he or she will report on, in a
field where precision, analytical rigor, and intellectual integrity are indispensable. The second goal is to cover crucial information and events that have decisive roles in society.
Columbia students are invited during the academic year to apply for a second degree, to be conferred by Sciences Po after two semesters of study and work in Paris. Students at Sciences Po should apply to Columbia during their first year. Each school will control their own admission process, though they will have a representative from the partner institution attend the final selection process. Students will pay regular tuition rates at
each institution.
Columbia Journalism School students at Sciences Po will study subjects such as international affairs, French and European history, economics and social dynamics, and a wide range of journalism courses, and, while enrolled at Sciences Po, they will also be placed in internships with Paris-based news and media organizations. Sciences Po’s journalism school will oversee the placement of these internships. Students from Sciences
Po who are admitted to Columbia will enroll in Columbia’s master of science program, the cornerstone program offered by the Journalism School.
This is the first dual degree program between a French and an American journalism school.
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Contact
David Klatell
Chair of International Studies
Professor of Professional Practice
212-854-3319
dak25@columbia.edu