Applications

To enter the first year of Licence at Inalco, you must follow the Parcoursup procedure.

Parcoursup is the national platform for pre-registration to the first year of higher education in France. This procedure is aimed at high school students, baccalaureate holders from previous years (outside and within Inalco) wishing to enter a 1st year Bachelor's degree program. You can formulate your wishes in the main admission phase from January 15 to March 13, 2025 at 11:59 pm.
Candidates who were unable to formulate wishes during the main phase, will be able to apply during thecomplementary phase, within the limit of available places.

Please note: the Literal Arabic, Chinese and Russian Licences 1 are accessible in the first year at living language 1 (LV1) and living language 2 (LV2) level. To assess your level, we invite you to take the online assessment test by creating an account.

You will need to apply on the Ecandidate 2 platform from May 12 to June 15, 2025.
The application is intended for people seeking direct admission to the second or third year of the bachelor's degree on the basis of their previous studies and an adequate level of proficiency in the language concerned.

LICENCE BILANGUE

The licence bilangue is accessible from Licence 2. 
Pre-registration will be open from February 10 to April 7, 2025. 

To pre-register for the licence bilangue, please send an email to sefor-formations@inalco.fr indicating:

• Last name, first name
• Inalco student number
• Current registration 2024-2025
• Chosen duo (Major/Minor for 2024-2025): see list of duos
• Possible comment

PROFESSIONALIZING LICENCES

L'Inalco offers professionalizing courses from Licence 2 upwards. To apply for these courses, you must log on to the eCandidat1 platform from May 2 to May 30, 2025
Attention: one-off application campaign.

Inalco's Masters programs are open to students with a Bachelor's degree who can demonstrate a sufficient level in one of the languages taught at Inalco.

FIRST YEAR MASTERS

For the following Masters programs: LLCER, Didactics of Languages, Languages and Societies, Management and International Business, MEEF 2nd degré, International Relations, Language Sciences, Automatic Language Processing, Literary Translation, Specialized Translation, Mediation and Interpretation in Public Service.
Application campaign: from February 25 to March 24, 2025, exclusively on the national application platform Mon Master.
Complementary phase (subject to available places): from June 17 to June 23, 2025 on the Mon Master platform.

Beware: fornon-European applicants whose country of residence is covered by the Études en France scheme, the application campaign will run from February 25 to March 24, 2025 on the eCandidat1 platform.
Complementary phase (subject to available places): from June 17 to June 23, 2025 on the eCandidat1.

MASTER IMAS

Application campaign: from February 25 to March 24, 2025, exclusively on the eCandidat1 platform.
Second application campaign : from June 17 to June 30, 2025, exclusively on the eCandidate1 platform.

Creating your application file takes time. Don't wait until the last few days to put together your file, as you risk having a botched and therefore invalid application.

DEADLINE APPLICATIONS FOR SECOND YEAR MASTERS

For the following Masters programs: LLCER, Didactics of Languages, IMAS, Management and International Business, International Relations, Language Sciences, Automatic Language Processing, Literary Translation.
M2 application campaign(intended for candidates from outside Inalco) : from February 25 to March 24, 2025 on the eCandidat1 platform.

Constituting an application file takes time. Don't wait until the last few days to put together your file, as you risk having a sloppy and therefore invalid application.

DLC, DC, DL 1st YEAR

• If you are registering for the first time at Inalco, you must follow the eCandidat2 procedure. The registration period is simultaneous with the administrative registration period (early July and late August).
  ONLY for Chinese DLC1, DC1 and DL1, the campaign will be held between May 12 and June 15, 2025
• If you are already or have been a student at Inalco, please send an e-mail to scolarite@inalco.fr mentioning your surname, first name, student number and the desired institutional diploma (DLC, DL, DC specifying the language if applicable) so that we can give you a pass for web registration.

DLC, DL SECOND, 3rd AND 4th YEARS

Students wishing to enter a 2nd, 3rd or 4th year of the DLC must apply on the eCandidat2 platform from May 12 to June 15, 2025
The application is intended for those seeking direct admission to DLC2, DLC3, DLC4 on the basis of their previous studies and an adequate level of proficiency in the language concerned.

DIPLÔME D'ÉTABLISSEMENT EN COMMERCE INTERNATIONAL ET LANGUE ORIENTALE (CILO)

To apply, you need to log on to the eCandidat1 from May 2 to May 30, 2025

DIPLÔME INTENSIF D'ARABE

Admission to the intensive Arabic diploma is based on a portfolio, possibly with an interview.

To apply (Date to come) send to arabeintensif@inalco.fr in a single PDF file and in this order:

• a detailed CV including email address and telephone number;
• your baccalaureate transcript together with all results and diplomas obtained subsequently;
• a letter of motivation.

INTENSIVE RUSSIANDIPLOMA

It's open via Parcoursup in the main phase from January 15 to March 13, 2025 for highly motivated beginner students (high school students or students without a bachelor's degree or equivalent) with excellent learning ability and wishing to devote themselves exclusively to studying Russian for a year.

People who already hold a Bachelor's degree or equivalent and wish to take this degree as part of additional training or retraining, must go through the eCandidat2 platform from February 25 to June 15, 2025
Please note: high school students and students who do not hold a Bachelor's degree or equivalent must apply via Parcoursup.

DIPLOMA INITIATION IN ARABIC, CHINESE OR RUSSIAN

To join the initiation diploma, you need to create an account on Parcoursup and formulate your wish for the desired course during the main phase from January 15 to March 13, 2025 The complementary phase of Parcoursup will take place from June 2 to September 11, 2025 , within the limit of available places.

FROM PASSERELLE AND H2M

Consult the training pages

Inalco offers fully accessible distance-learning diplomas.

For the 2025-2026 academic year, the following distance-learning diplomas in comodal will be offered:

• the language diploma (DL) of Burmese 1st, 2nd and 3rd year
• the language and civilization diploma (DLC) of Estonian 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th year
• the language and civilization diploma (DLC) of Lithuanian 1st and 2nd year
• the language diploma (DL) of Rromani 1st year
• the language diploma (DL) of Slovak 1st, 2nd and 3rd year
• the language diploma (DL) of Tibetan 1st year

For distance learning courses offered via co-modal, please see “DLC, DC, DL 1ÈRE ANNÉE” and “DLC, DL 2ÈME, 3ÈME ET 4ÈME ANNÉE” in the “Applying for a school diploma” tab above.

For the year 2025-2026, the bimodal or 100% distance-learning diplomas on offer are:

• the Diplôme d'Initiation of Arabic
• the civilization diploma (DC) in Islamology
• the inter-university diploma (DIU) “Islamology: principles, issues and applications in contemporary France”
• the language diploma (DL) of Modern Hebrew 1st, 2nd and 3rd year
• the language diploma (DL) of Malagasy 1st, 2nd and 3rd year and the language and civilization diploma (DLC) of Malagasy 1st and 2nd year
• the language diploma (DL) of Literary Arabic - beginner, intermediate and advanced

Application dates for the DIU Islamology are from March 17 to May 31, 2025 on the eCandidat2 platform. Application deadlines for other bimodal or 100% distance-learning diplomas are from May 12 to June 15, 2025 on the eCandidat2 platform.

Important information for candidates wishing to apply for a DL in Intermediate or Advanced Literary Arabic

To apply for direct admission to the Intermediate or Advanced DL programs, you must take a placement test before submitting your application. You will then apply for a single diploma, depending on your test result and the message displayed at the end of the test.

Placement tests are taken online, and can be accessed via the following link: https://moodleplus.inalco.fr (in the “Arabe niveaux DL intermédiaire et DL avancé” tab).
Before taking the test of your choice, you will need to create a user account and log in with your first and last name. The score obtained in the placement test will be used as proof of your level for admission to the intermediate or advanced DL levels.

The Intermediate DL test covers all the lessons in Méthode d'arabe littéral by L. Deheuvels, volume 1. The test for entry into advanced DL covers all the lessons in Méthode d'arabe littéral by L. Deheuvels, volume 2.
Before taking the placement test, we recommend that you work through all the lessons in this manual.

As this test will determine your level for admission to the corresponding diploma, it is unnecessary and counterproductive to ask for help from a third party.

No admission to the intermediate or advanced DL can be offered if the candidate has not completed the placement test before June 15, 2025.

Candidates who have successfully completed the Diplôme d'Initiation or the L1 face-to-face course in Literal Arabic, and who wish to apply for the distance learning diploma corresponding to the higher level (DL Intermediate or DL Advanced), must submit their application on the eCandidat platform. They do not need to take the placement test, but must provide their transcript of marks for the diploma validated in the classroom (initiation or L1).

TESTS FOR LICENCES IN ARAB, CHINESE, RUSSIAN, HÉBREU

For applications to Licence 1, 2 or 3 or to first, second or third year institutional diplomas, Inalco offers placement tests to help you assess your language level and orient yourself.

Please note: these placement tests do not constitute an application. Admission to a degree program at Inalco is subject to the submission of an application on the dedicated platforms and within the deadlines indicated in the Applying and registering for a diploma course

To apply for a Licence 1 - Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew or Russian

You wish to apply for L1 and you have already acquired knowledge in one of these languages (which you may have studied in high school as LV1, LV2, LV3): we invite you to take the online placement test (for Arabic, Chinese or Russian) on the Moodle+ platform by creating an account. The placement test for Hebrew will take place only on ../../2025 from, in room ... (65 rue des Grands Moulins, Paris 75013).

After the test:

• If you don't yet have the level in Arabic, Chinese or Russian to be admitted to L1, you can apply for the diplôme d'initiation which will enable you the following year to access the first year of the bachelor's degree.
• If you have a sufficient level in Arabic, Chinese or Russian, you can apply directly for L1.
• Depending on your results in the Hebrew test, you will be directed towards the "Great Beginners" or "False Beginners" pathway in L1.

To apply for the second or third year of the Licence or the Diplôme d'établissement (DL/DLC) 1-2-3 - Arabic, Chinese or Russian

Other online tests are available on Moodle+ to help you choose the most suitable level.

For Chinese, please consult the following document: Applications for Chinese studies: procedure for online assessment tests

Please note: in addition to the online test (1st part), applicants for the 2nd and 3rd year Russian diplomas will be invited to take additional face-to-face tests at the end of each of the presentations relevant to them on the pre-entry day (../../2025 , in room ... ).

For any questions about the online tests, contact:
Service Appui à l'enseignement numérique
Mail address: assistance-moodle@inalco.fr
Bureau 7.06