Sciences Po Bordeaux, or Institut d'études politiques de Bordeaux, is a French political science grande école situated on the university campus of Pessac, 8 km from the centre of Bordeaux and is attached to the Montesquieu University - Bordeaux IV. It was established in 1948. Sciences Po Bordeaux is one of the nine Institutes of Political Studies of France, and a so-called "Grande Ecole".The Institute has approximately 1,300 students, admitted after a rigorous selection. Academic studies last five years, at the end of which a student graduates with the Diploma of Sciences Po Bordeaux and with one of three Masters offered by the Institute. Sciences Po Bordeaux has more than 200 exchange-agreements with universities throughout the world, including double degree-diploma programs with the universities of Stuttgart , Turin , Coimbra , Madrid , Cardiff , Moscow , Kingston and Quebec .HistoryThe school was established by decree on 4 May 1948 under the name "Institut d'études politiques de l’université de Bordeaux"; Maurice Duverger was its first director. It obtained a statute of établissement public and took its present name with the decree of 18 January 1969 with the other Sciences-Po of Aix, Grenoble, Lyon, Strasbourg and Toulouse.The historian and sociologist Jacques Ellul, and the future Minister, Secretary of the European Council and Vice-President of the European Parliament,Catherine Lalumière, were teachers in the institution. Until 1967 Sciences-Po Bordeaux was situated in the city center of Bordeaux at 4 Maréchal Joffre street, replaced by the current lower Court of Justice of Bordeaux.