Falmer
Brighton BN1 9RH

Tel 01273 876 787

study@sussex.ac.uk

www.sussex.ac.uk

Sunday Times ranking 30 (27)

Teaching excellence 64.7%

Student satisfaction 69%

Head teacher ranking 74= (41)

Peer ranking 34 (43)

Research quality 73.4%

A/AS-level points 390

A-levels for entry 82%

Unemployment 6.3%

Firsts and 2:1s 79.6%

Student/staff ratio 15.1:1

Dropout rate 12% (12%)

World ranking 105=

Undergraduates 6,714 (2,400)

Postgraduates 1,893 (1,407)

Teaching staff 484

Applications/places 17,482/2,469; 7.1:1 (+0.4%)

Clearing entry 1%

Bursaries 20%: £1,000

Scholarships Various: £1,000

EU/overseas 6.8%/4.2%

Mature 17.3%

State school 85%

Lowest social classes 20%

Low-participation areas 8%

Live in 40% (99%) £47-£104

Sussex and its neighbour Brighton are the only two universities in the UK where students can escape the library for the beach and carry on working online. Thanks to the wi-fi connection that runs between Brighton’s two piers, this coastal city has the first beach in Britain with wireless access. The potential to combine sand and study adds to the bohemian, alternative image that both the city and university revel in.

Over the past four years, Sussex has totally reviewed its degree programme. Arts and social science courses got the treatment in 2003, followed by science in 2006. The aim was to make all courses relevant and to offer students the skills that would make them directly employable on graduation. An excellent reputation, boosted by the opening in 2003 of the now hugely oversubscribed medical school (run in collaboration with the University of Brighton), means they are in demand. Unemployment is low, although the numbers in graduate-level jobs, at 58%, is 10% below the UK average.

Sussex is investing £50m in new facilities over the next three years. This month’s intake will be the first to benefit from two new blocks of student residences on the 200-acre campus, situated in Falmer on the edge of Brighton. A massive refurbishment of the 1960s fabric has just been completed, including the arts lecture theatres at the heart of the campus.

Although levels of student satisfaction are up a little this year following the disappointing survey results of 2006, Sussex remains just outside the bottom 10 nationally. On the face of it, students have every reason to be satisfied with their teaching at Sussex, underpinned as it is by a research profile that saw all academics entered for the last research assessments (amounting to 90% of the total academic body) rated either nationally or internationally eminent.

Open days October 13.

Student view Daniel Vockins, students’ union president:

USP Brighton creates an atmosphere where you can become whoever you want to be.

Worst feature Proximity to Brighton: it’s just too tempting.

Location Surrounded by rolling green fields to walk in.

Social scene Societies offering everything from circus skills to debating.

Rated excellent (14) American studies; anthropology; education; English; French; linguistics; maths, statistics and operational research; molecular biosciences; music; organismal biosciences; philosophy; physics and astronomy; politics (and international relations); sociology.

Student satisfaction 69.0% Law 81.1; Mathematical Sciences 79.6; Economics 77.8; Biology and related Sciences 76.4; Physical Science 75.5; Management 72.5; Psychology 72.1; Politics 68.7; History and Archeology 68.5; Computer Science 67.6; Performing Arts 65.2; Physical Geography and Environmental Science 65.0; English-based studies 64.9; Media studies 64.3; Sociology, Social Policy and Anthropology 63.5; Human and Social Geography 63.1; Philosophy, Theology and Religious studies 59.2; Social Work 58.7

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