Sussex is a great place, it's positioned inside the South Downs, so there's a national park three feet from my room and I like to be able to go wondering. However the important thing about any uni is the pubs and we have two great ones on campus, they offer open mic nights and cheap drinks on tuesday's, not to say the pints are expensive normally. The academic staff in the Physics department are some of the nicest people I've ever met and they spend all their time on campus actively engaging and helping us. I love it.

They hold too many meetings, presentations, fairs and soiree's with employers I can't count them. We get emails about visits to subject specific venues and the uni runs visits over the holidays to CERN and a summer school for American students which earns you £2000 for 6 weeks and gets you towards a teaching career if that's your thing. Along with the outreach program in the Physics department, there are places for everyone.

With the uni's online survice for work, showing us all our slides from lectures, recordings and worksheets/assessments the contact between you and the lecturer's is amazing. All academic staff are friendly and will hapilly invite you to their rooms to help you if needed.

Not my favourite but they do spend a lot of time keeping the pubs happy and generally make the place habitable. Spend a lot of time bogged down in the politics but I guess that's why they get into it so I don't mind too much.

There's such a range of accomodation you can't fault it, if you don't care about it at all then there's Eastslope and if you want an en-suite and more space than you know how to use, there's Northfield.

Library is AWESOME, huge and well divided, seperated into group study rooms, silent ares, quiet areas and sofas/talking areas along with computer blocks of about 50 per floor its just brilliant. Then the cafe's of about twelve are great, the co-op on campus gives 10% off with an NUS card and the canteen with a resteraunt above makes a nice place to eat if you can't be bothered to cook.

It's Brighton, if you haven't been and don't know, it's full of live music, good food, nice pubs and tonnes of clubs. Even if you don't go to Sussex, you need to see Brighton at least once. Also there's a beach.

There are loads and they all keep members up to date with emails or texts depending, whatever you like, there's a soc for that.

Student advice centre, along with everywhere else on campus is geared towards helping with anything from emotional breakdowns to a cracked nail. The place is full of caring people and they organise weekly meetings for anyone that feels they need it.

A physics degree is hard. It's stressful. There will be times when your mates go out and you just can't because you have to much work to do but it's so enjoyable

Loads of opportunities within the physics dept. to work in summer schcools and to tutor maths and English at local secondary school in an effort to get kids from lower economic backgrounds to think about applying to University.

Every lecturer always gets back to your emails and they each have consultation hours throughout the week should you have any questions.

The SU is one thing that I think lets Sussex down. Very poor choice of societies and clubs; there are sports and there's a society for your subject but very little else in between. The bars on campus are good, the food is nice too. Ultimately I feel let down the the SU.

5 bed terraced house, £98 /week not including bills. It was completely furnished and there are two bathrooms. Reasonable price for Brighton too especially considering it's location in Hanover, a very lovely part of the city, walking distance to town and well connected by busses going straight to the university.

Study space is a main priority of mine. Physics had their own study space but it is being slowly taken away by arts and humanities despite the recent opening of a new arts building (apparently it is not suitable). The library is good but it is always full near exams. There needs to be more study spaces for students. Parking is also bad on campus. Sussex are taking in more and more students but the infrastructure cannot cope! There are lots of places to go for food on campus and I would say that the coffee is reasonably priced however the food can sometimes be very expensive so bringing a packed lunch is a necessity if you're on campus all day.

Brighton very quickly shrinks after a few months of living here. The clubs are good if you like generic chart music or drum and bass but there's surprisingly very little 'edge' in Brighton.

Poor. (See earlier section)

From First hand experience the counselling support is good. Feedback can sometimes be lacking when assignments are returned, however this differs from tutor to tutor.