SUSSEX UNIVERSITY

In an effort to establish a university to serve Sussex, a public meeting was held in December 1911 at the Royal Pavilion in order to discover ways to fund the construction of a university; the project was halted by World War I, and the money raised was used instead for books for the Municipal Technical College.

The University of Sussex has more than a third of its students enrolled in postgraduate programs and around a third of its staff is drawn from outside the United Kingdom. Sussex has a diverse community of over 17,000 students, with around one in three being foreign students, and over 2,600 academics, representing over 100 different nationalities. The annual income of the institution for 2016–17 was £286.1 million with an expenditure of £270.4 million. In 2017, over 25 thousand students applied to the University of Sussex, with around five thousand joining the institution.

COURSES

School of Business, Management and Economics
School of Education and Social Work
School of Engineering and Informatics
School of English
School of Global Studies
School of History, Art History and Philosophy 
School of Law, Politics and Sociology
School of Life Sciences
School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences
School of Media, Film and Music
School of Psychology
Brighton and Sussex Medical School

ABOUT THE AREA

The University of Sussex is a public research university in Falmer, Sussex, England. Its campus is located in the South Downs National Park and is a short distance away from Central Brighton. The university received its Royal Charter in August 1961, the first of what Beloff termed the Plate glass university generation, and was a founding member of the 1994 Group of research-intensive universities.

The campus, designed by Sir Basil Spence, is in the village of Falmer. It is close to the South Downs, which influenced Spence’s design of the campus. In 1959, the Basil Spence and Partners company began planning and designing the campus, to be built over a 15-year period. In 1971, 17 buildings had been designed and built winning numerous awards including a medal from the Royal Institute of British Architects and a Civic Trust award. Spence expressed his awe at the beauty of the surrounding region and designed the campus as a stream of low buildings so as not to disturb the natural scenery around. Brick was chosen throughout as it was the dominant material used in West and East Sussex.

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