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This site uses cookies. In order to continually improve this site, we remember and store information about how you use it. Find out more. Education is sub par, and online learning has been horrendous. Came here believing this is the best school in the world for international development. Two months later as a MA Development Studies student, I've learned that the professors couldn't care less, the material taught is highly superficial, and that the 'highly regarded' Institute of Development Studies is just a dilapidated building with almost no facilities.
No quantitative methods taught and no meaningful career support, so alongside this course I have to pay extra money to learn statistical methods and programming on Coursera, which kind of defeats the purpose of attending school here. What to say? Its been the worst decision of my life. Housing services are abominable. They say its ok to move onto campus, then a Covid outbreak begins and when kids want to stop their contracts and go home, housing says they have to pay the whole years rent up front or keep paying rent until someone else takes the room.
The teaching has been garbage and every time I have to go into Brighton, its a 40 minute bus ride. I'm transferring out. Two months into my first year as an undergraduate and I profoundly regret coming here. Teaching support is absolutely terrible, living facilities including food is terrible, CONSTANT construction, not remotely near Brighton central, and student life support is nonexistent. It is a great pleasure for me to be here in Brighton, people are very kindly in here, beautiful scenery and fresh air.
It's all fascinating! Sussex is honeslty a brilliant experience and Covid has made me realise how much I actually miss spending time on campus and in classes. It drives me absolutely nuts, keeps disconnecting and refuses to reconnect. Have had a really good first year here, love the campus and societies for everyone. Student union isn't the best but brighton is really close.
No support during Covid, no support during recurrent strikes, no support generally, poor lecturers. My experience was pretty bad. Changed to Kent after the first year, which was a great move!! Join me at Kent. Sussex is the Trump University of the UK. Avoid at all costs. The education and curriculum was terribly simplistic, and student and academic support on campus is the pits. Constant strikes with no solution in sight means that not only did we miss out on almost 2 months of education, but that it will happen again next academic year.
Housing services were the worst. Internet connectivity is horrible, and laundry is inordinately expensive. Rooms are tiny as well. Housing services actually told me to borrow money from family members when I said I had to defer payment. This is a private corporation, not a university. Overall inhuman experience. How they handled Covid then was just awkward.
Avoid this university if you can. Psychology masters program is pretty lousy. Professors don't really care about teaching students, and course material is a little dated. The support services academically and lifestyle-wise are terrible. Counseling services take weeks to get back, and there is really isn't any place students can really hang out on campus.
Campus is also not centrally located and quite a ways out of Brighton. Not a nice place to spend my first year of uni. Campus amenities are lacking, education and curriculum at best scratches the surface, and location of uni is highly inconvenient. Wifi is terrible. Two strikes this year and no compensation for any of the time lost. Campus is nice, although comes with overpriced housing.
Lecture rooms are bad, and support from the university is non-existent. Terrible postgraduate experience. Everything about the university was lacking, from academics and housing to amenities and support. School advertises itself as 1 in the world for development studies, but this cannot be further from the truth.
I would pick a better-ranked university over this one, even for development-related subjects. Made one of the biggest mistakes of my life coming here. Feel cheated and utterly ignored by the university. Do not attend Sussex! WE fools!!! We provide them all that money!!!! We are so foolish Shame on us that we did not opt for a genuine place of learning, shame on us Specially during Covid they have been just awful and heartless!
I'm a year 3 student in engineering and sussex was great - staff supportive during covid online teaching, lots of school resources, some buildings should be renovated, and there could be more access to workshop. Great societies and careers support in the school.
An utter and thorough disappointment. The very few contact hours you get are a waste of time, and disturbing in its lack of any academic rigour and ethos.
The campus isn't that great, the SU is non existent seriously! The library is so bad, never any space and is very ugly. The feel of the uni is just very cold no-one seems that friendly. Sport at the uni is pretty bad not very well organised or incorporated into the uni. The uni is also outside of Brighton and is a pain to get into. The only good things about the uni is that my course is really good and accommodation is really nice other than that its bad uni.
Very unpleasant experience overall. I am not happy with the "education", and I consider a very bad investment. Mine is an experience of a foreign students hoping to get a world class education. In its stead I got literally a headache, as I left the university with significantly damaged mental health. I feel instrumentalised and disrespected. Far from world class, Sussex does deserve to be called a university at all! Poor facilities. No dialogue. I experienced it as literally inhuman place.
The campus is easy to wrap your head around, and has plenty of places to eat, drink and socialise. There are plenty of societies, ranging from the classic ones to more niche interests. There are several reasons not to come here: education, housing, location, facilities. The content is no different from that of an undergraduate political science program and the assessment in no way tests you're understanding of the content at all. Many residences are old and dilapidated, and wifi is absolutely atrocious.
If you were lucky, you could get back GBP for compensation for many weeks of missed classes. Long story short: go somewhere better. If you are considering coming to Sussex, I would strongly advise against going! They were on strike for a good half of the year, so I haven't been taught the full course, and my money is not being reimbursed. Not only this, but they are incredibly poor at listening to students' needs. I have bad asthma and this was made clear in my application.
A drug addict was allowed to move into our accommodation part way through the year, despite the university knowing about her condition, and my health problems.
I asked her politely to stop smoking illegal substance in our halls of residence, and when she refused, I reported it to the university. I had to go to various meetings and send several emails to get anyone to listen to me; and when they said they would take action, they didn't.
I've had a really poor experience here and now feel I cannot move because it seems too stressful to start over again. I sighed up for counselling but they stop my sessions 3 weeks in for reasons that havent been clear to me also this uni aint as progressive as it thinks it is especially to BAME students whatever is your second option or your on the fence about which uni to go to i can assure you it will be better than here. Good university, but recent strikes has significantly lowered my experience.
Do NOT go to this university! I studied towards a PdD at Sussex, which was the worst decision of my life. In fact, after two years I changed university. The location is inconvenient. The campus is ugly. The food on campus is revolting. Everything is super expensive and of low quality. Many academics care formostly for their personal activism. No Socratic dialogue. Just ideology.
Campus is big and green with a mixture of architecture. The library is absolutely huge. Situated in the countryside. Regular buses throughout campus and a train station withing walking distance 20 minutes walk from Northfield, the furthest accomodation. Can't really give feedback on clubs and societies since I didn't join any. I don't know what the students union actually did either so I can't say whether they were useful or useless. Never used careers service either. Wi-fi had occasionally drop outs.
Very disappointing university. I study computer science at Sussex, the teaching is adequate but the course is not overly challenging compared to other unis where some of my friends study. The campus is nothing special really, There are not many social spaces and last year the university decided to demolish the main bar on campus to build more expensive accommodation.
The computer science facilities however are truly excellent as a lot of money has been invested into building state of the art computer labs with modern hardware and dual p monitors at every desk, but unless you are studying computer science or engineering you will not be allowed to use the labs and instead will have to use the library computers which are painfully slow and outdated.
Before you decide to come here you should check whether your department went on strike this year, as this is likely to happen again next year and will cause you to miss out on teaching.
To be completely honest, this university is probably the greediest one you will ever come across. It has the worst accommodations as well. My block has been out of warm water for an entire week yet they refuse to fix the problem even though 4 flatmates of mine including me have gotten ill from this incident. There is only one tiny supermarket which is always crowded and everything is constantly out of stock.
I suggest you go elsewhere. I've spent 4 years here so far, and been taught by faculty from two totally different schools. The quality of teaching on average is, in my experience, very poor. There were a few who were very good at teaching but the majority were perceived, not just by me, as being bad. The result is that myself and others I know felt as if we were teaching ourselves.
Sussex faculty were also widely very keen to exercise their democratic right to strike whenever their pensions were affected, at the expense of the people that are funding their wages - happened twice to me since I've been here, during the run up to exams. Really helpful and totally not breach of contract guys, well done! The campus is being refurbished and expanded, but still only has two small shops where you can buy food - one of which is the co op, and the other the student union shop, the former very expensive, and both are under-supplied.
Wifi is generally not the best. The library is good. This place is a wannabe Russell group. You basically have to be white and ultra middle class to join in the social circles here. It's okay except for the crowded student halls which feels like a ghetto. It clearly makes money for the developers though and that;s all that matters to the Uni. This university is simply about capitalism and funny thing is they do so much teaching about capitalism but they are at the forefront of it.
This is by far the worst decision of my entire life. Not gonna lie the campus has everything you need and the library is peng but in terms of accommodations some need to be taken down and redone i. The internet works sometimes, again if you're in PV don't count on it. There's no emphasis on clubs and societies not really any fairs for them, but they do exist- I think. Honestly, not even worth your time. If you are considering using your degree which you will have paid tens of thousands of pounds for?
You don't need the headache, or the poor tutors. I'm totally exasperated with this. Worst still, if you have any concerns about your mental health, Seriously do not look for help on campus!!
The campus is designed to keep students there as little as possible. Even the onsite cafes are designed to keep people there for as short a time as humanly possible: spend your money, then go away please. There is a lot of green space but very few benches, and those that there are are spaced out so that's not very sociable either.
Perhaps as a consequence of this, the general atmosphere is incredibly reserved- it's almost impossible to meet people you don't know except at "acceptable" times like societies. The library is over-full and not enough plug sockets. The wifi is patchy so it's unlikely that you'll be able to work outside on a nice day. In general my experience has been very poor here at Sussex. Disinterested tutors, low quality teaching and I wish I'd gone elsewhere.
The university itself is not bad in terms of course content and facilities, however some lecturers are useless. Not a single one of my emails have been replied to this term, and it seems the lecturers are never in their office when they say they are, so there is absolutely no support outside of class. They are so biased towards sports clubs over societies e. I would not recommend staying on campus, although campus life is fun, when you are trying to sleep and doors are slamming and music is blaring, the complaints will never be dealt with.
Security will come for 5 mins, leave and then the problems resume. Not a single maintenance issue my flat have found has been resolved. The wifi is absolutely terrible and nobody gets any signal in the Northfield area.
The only good thing about this uni for me is benefits for working class and poorer families. Sussex actually does a lot to help out here. I am an international student who is doing postgraduate course this year The followings are my honest impression about the University of Sussex.
Overall, the University of Sussex is accepting too many students, thus, overcrowded. It is difficult to use facilities e. ESL service are also fully booked, so not able to use it most of times. It does not worth paying more than 20, pounds for this environment. I have requested University to improve the condition several times, yet they just shared irrelevant information… If you live the off-campus accommodation, you might face a trouble with commute. The local bus is often packed in the morning.
Thus, you have to wait for next bus. I am mildly annoyed by the wi-fi going down every few seconds, but I have to say, the new facilities are incredible. I love the labs, the campus is beautiful, the people from clubs and shops are very nice although the shop prices are extreme.
This university is all about making money. Lecture slides lack information and the assignments are unrelated to the course content. Like a little town of its own. Don't shop in COOP - super expensive. Internet cuts out for roughly 30 seconds every 30 minutes or so on mobile for four years now.
More students than library spaces - super crowded and will get even worse with the building of more halls. The campus is undergoing extensive refurbishment, as a result the accommodation facilities it offers is impresssive such as East Slopes however I would not recommend Park Village at all.
The Lecture Halls are all of good quality and the campus is generally a nice place to be. It has a strong community feel. The Hni offers an extensive range of Clubs and Societies to join. The WiFi is also generally good however can be temperamental at times. Really beautiful location with Brighton to explore and a wide range of courses and a multicultural student population. Hard to believe some of the other negative comments. Where were they.
Beautiful Campus with green areas and facilities that provided in campus are fantastic. Availabe internet wifi throughout the campus. Terrible university, where students are treated appallingly. Do not even consider this university. Overall my graduate degree got me where I hoped to. The graduate student 'headlease' housing which I was placed in was a complete dump managed by a third party. Class was cancelled relatively often for faculty strikes - noble causes, but as an international student these fights were generally distant to me and it was hard to justify tuition costs versus cancelled class.
I'm ultimately satisfied, but would encourage international fee-paying graduate students to consider their admission options and avoid using the Sussex housing office if possible. The campus is beautiful, surrounded by the Sussex Downs and right next to Brighton, the location is pefect. Incredible clubbing if thats your thing, or nice long walks. The studying facilities are state of the art, as is the research conducted here. If you want to graduate from a great university and have the best time of your life, Sussex is the place for you.
I had one of the best years of my life in the University of Sussex! The atmosphere is amazing, the people are friendly, and the teaching is top quality. I could not recommend highly enough, I loved it! Overall this University has been badly managed for over 30 years and all attempts at improvement have failed because fundamentally it believes it is the best and it is complacent. The staff behave like a free-masonic clique and are very arrogant. I do not advise anyone to consider this university.
Do not believe all the marketing about the University of Sussex. Was a mature international student in the MA media school and my experience was rewarding,could never have wanted to be in another UNI. Do not come to this university.
I hate it. The campus is so old and depressing, most of the accommodation is revolting and the only nice accommodation is still far too expensive for what it is. I will not be recommending this university to anybody. I went to sussex for a year and it was a complete waste of time, the campus is old and depressing and it only has one food shop for the whole university which is always running low on supplys if you are going to study here live of campus!
I love sussex, the campus is massive but, to quote my tutor, it shrinks when you find your way around. The library is a great facility with three stories and varying sections so you can always find an area that fits your studying style. There is always something going on in library square and there are so many cafes and places to eat that there is no excuse to not meet up with friends and be socials!
Societies are amazing and super fun. It was an ok experience but it wasn't the best. Campus was easy to navigate and there were a tonne of societies but careers and wifi could be improved on. Sussex is incredible, I wouldn't have gone anywhere else. The campus is lovely, the social side is great especially if you're living in East Slope and the people are wonderful. It's amazing living in Brighton too.
Poor feedback, very bad management, teaching quality is very inconsistent, very overcrowded. Student Union is highly disappointing. Our union building is almost non existent, not many activities and exciting events happening on campus. Don't feel like I even know who the members of the Union are. Facilities on campus are great but another few ranges of shops would be welcome- really good two bars! Brilliant campus with great facilities and beautiful surrounding. Internet is very bipolar working brilliantly one minute and being nowhere to be found the other.
Very nice and convenient campus - quick to get anywhere in a matter of minutes. Clubs and societies could be expanded on.
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