The Boutmy is decided by the admissions committee, not by a separate funding office. There is no second application and no second assessment: the same file that wins a place decides the money, which makes the application itself the only lever a candidate has.
That has a hard consequence attached. You cannot ask for it after an offer arrives, or at any point during your studies. Sciences Po states plainly that a student who does not receive it is responsible for finding funding elsewhere, so the cost of forgetting to tick the box at application time is the whole award.
What arrives is a fee exemption, not money to live on. At bachelor's level it is either full tuition or 9,500 euros, and it carries forward automatically if the holder goes on to a master's at Sciences Po, which makes the undergraduate award worth considerably more than three years of fees. At master's level it is 18,500 euros against each of the two years. Paris living costs sit outside all of it.
Eligibility turns on where the household pays tax rather than where the student lives. A candidate living in the EU can still qualify if their household files outside it, while EU dual citizens are excluded whatever their circumstances.
Check the exclusions before counting on it. The PhD, one-year master's programmes, both journalism master's routes and most dual degrees are outside the scheme, with named exceptions for the Columbia journalism dual degree and the Fudan and Peking dual degrees for Chinese nationals. It also cannot be stacked with another Sciences Po or partner scholarship, though external awards such as Eiffel are fine.
Master's candidates get two committees, 19 October and 30 November, with results before 30 December and 2 March. The earlier committee reports well before the later one closes.
The scholarship page was checked on 15 September 2026.