University of Sussex at Brighton

University of Sussex

University of Sussex Coat of Arms
Motto	Latin: Vacate et scire
Motto in English	Be Still and Know
Type	Public research university
Established	1958 1961 (Royal Charter)
Endowment	£11.0 million (as of 31 July 2017)
Budget	£286.1 million (2016-17)
Chancellor	Sanjeev Bhaskar
Vice-Chancellor	Adam Tickell
Visitor	Andrea Leadsom as The Lord President of the Council ex officio
Academic staff	1,000
Administrative staff	1,100
Students	17,319
Undergraduates	11,925
Postgraduates	5,394
Location	Falmer, East Sussex, England
Campus	City, Campus, Seaside
Colours	White and Flint
Affiliations	Universities UK, BUCS, Sepnet, SeNSS, Association of Commonwealth Universities, NCUB
Mascot	Badger
Website	www.sussex.ac.uk

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.

It 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 international 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, a little under 26 thousand students applied to the university, with a little under five thousand joining it.

The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2018 placed Sussex 147th in the world overall and 39th in the world for Social Sciences. Sussex is particularly known for the Humanities and the Social Sciences and its Development studies program is placed as number 1 in the world in the QS World University Ranking.

Sussex counts 5 Nobel Prize winners, 15 Fellows of the Royal Society, 9 Fellows of the British Academy, 24 fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences and a winner of the Crafoord Prize among its faculty. By 2011, many of its faculty members had also received the Royal Society of Literature Prize, the Order of the British Empire and the Bancroft Prize. Alumni include heads of states, diplomats, politicians, eminent scientists and activists.