Kim Han-Sol, 18, who studied in Macau and Bosnia, is due to start at Sciences-Po's campus in the northern city of Le Havre in this year's Europe-Asia undergraduate programme, university official Caroline Allain said.
The English-taught course addresses the relationship between Europe and Asia. Students have to learn French and pick one Asian language -- Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Hindi or Indonesian.
The teenager's father Kim Jong-Nam is the eldest son of Kim Jong-Il, who took power in 1994 and like Kim Il-Sung -- the founder of the ruling family -- led the hermetic state until his death in late 2011.
The teenager has studied at the United World College in Mostar in Bosnia. He avoided the media but in a rare interview to Elisabeth Rehn, a former UN undersecretary general, branded his uncle Kim Jong-Un a "dictator".
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