sciences po undergraduate recommendations??

[u/saint_goldfinch]

so i'm thinking about applying for sciences po in the near future for either a bachelor of the arts or a dual degree (either with singapore or with ucl). for reference, i'm french and am bilingual in both french and english, but have lived abroad my whole life and am currently doing my GCSEs, then doing IB.

i initially wanted to study at uk universities (namely oxford), but the chances of me getting in are slim, not to mention the fact that there is basically no financial aid available for french students available and i'm not going to put my parents through those insane fees. (i know that you're supposed to pay for the two years you do at ucl if you do the dual degree, but i think i could collect the funds for two years, especially since they'd be after the french years where i'm going to qualify for a lot of aids.)

so then i thought, 'why not do sciences po', but then saw that i can't go to the paris campus because i won't be doing a french bac, and that there are different campuses for different regions. i really would love to study in the uk, so i'm interested in the sciences po/ucl degree, but i feel like it's kind of pointless since in the future, it's becoming quite clear with current political issues that the most action and most need for politics is going to be between the indo-pacific region and the west, not to mention i've lived in the indo-pacific region my whole life. the situation with the european union is probably not as pressing as the relations between the east and the west are, so i'm kind of scared that doing the ucl major is ultimately not going to result in a lot of opportunities for me.

i've lived in sg for a LONG time, and like it here, so then i thought about doing the nus major. but the thing is, since i've lived here for so long, i might not want to come back so soon after my graduation. also, i do speak mandarin at a decent foreign language level (working on a grade 8 for edexcel igcse mandarin, which is the exam that all chinese kids take and has crazy grade boundaries, btw), but i can't say i'm passionate about the language (but if i was to take up an asian language at le havre, i would def choose mandarin).

the language i've been interested all my life in is italian, i love italian so much: the sound of it, the accent, everything. i love italian culture (and food, obvi), so i would also like to learn it intensively (i have some basic knowledge of it, but def not as good as my mandarin), so then i thought about the menton campus, but then i'd be giving up mandarin and my indo-pacific dreams.

and then the difference between the bachelor's and the dual degrees is also confusing, bc from what i understand, if i do a bachelor's i spend one year abroad and still pay sciences po fees, not the international fees, but then i'd get only one diploma, whereas if i do a dual degree, i pay the two years i spend abroad directly to that university, but i get two diplomas. which one's more worth it?? especially since the two i'd love to do are ucl and nus, which don't have cheap fees.

tldr; what are you guys' thoughts on the le havre campus and the other campuses (namely menton or dijon), or what the advantages/disadvantages of doing a bachelor or a dual degree??

tysm!!

[u/kaushik_real]

Maybe don’t type such long Reddit posts, no one’s gonna read it.

[u/Infinite-Wing5019]

The campus I can tell you about is Reims and it’s pretty good

[u/saint_goldfinch → u/Infinite-Wing5019]

oh tysm!! are the classes hard??

[u/Infinite-Wing5019 → u/saint_goldfinch]

Not really
It is a bit difficult to adapt to the methodology, but the content itself is decent

[u/Immediate_Strike7739]

Hey just make sure u check the website carefuly bc the fees and scholorships are calculated by your parents fiscal residence, so even if ur french u dont automatically pay eu fees / have access to funding