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4.04.04.51855 Student reviews
Sort:Latest reviewsSome facilities need to be updated, student support received from academic advisor has been non existent. Travel into Brighton is unreliable with timing and takes a long time.
The campus is in a great location, the buildings are creatively designed and is close to Brighton City Centre. Although, sometimes attending university is difficult due to bus services as some buses are full and I have to wait either 2 or 3 buses later.
The campus is all in one place, easily accessible. Some of the lecture halls are outdated and too small.
I am grateful for so much Student support there is at University of Sussex. I love societies and I’m happy to have options to choose from different societies. Downside, particularly in societies, I joined some I would like but majority was British Students and due my International English level I didn’t feel I was welcomed or had not feel of belonging.
No claims to mention here.
It is a great place to study because of many reasons. Firstly, the campus and facilities are great with a lot of events going on. Secondly the staff is professional helpful and the teaching sessions (seminars, lectures, laboratories) are well organised and taught in a modern well-taught way. From my first day at Sussex I felt welcomed and enjoyed everything. Thank you Sussex!
Sussex as a campus is great, has a very nice feel to it and has plenty on on-site facilities, bars etc. The university is going through somewhat of a transformation with a new business building, accommodation, student life centre and a fresh new building near the co-op. However if you study in one of the existing buildings, you get the sense that not much has changed since the 60’s. My degree is part of the informatics department which is based in the ‘Chichester’ building. The equipment is of high quality although when equipment breaks it can take some time for it to be repaired. The computer labs are also shared with the engineering department and space can be quite tight. Now that learning has returned to being in person, it can be quite busy The course itself is generally well taught. Most of the professors are enthusiastic and will go out of their way to help you. This can be especially said for two Lecturers who are extremely good teachers. Some of the professors however are extremely busy with research, meaning dated lecture materials and lecturer’s being unresponsive to students outside of lecture times. This being said, i do feel that the department is open to hearing student feedback and are working on improvements. I would definitely still recommend Sussex to potential students.
18-24 years
A lot of student societies are announced, but just few are actually working. Not a lot free-for-all events are held regularly. Sometimes hard to get there as it is outside of Brighton. But buses are still convenient enough. I would recommend engaging people to reopen "dead" societies and post more events to the centralized places like "Student Mobile" By the way "Student Mobile" is nice and easy to use, but I'd better divide content there by categories. Because sometimes it happens that buttons that were earlier in one place now are in another.
18-24 years
Brilliant course, great lecturers and staff and library. Could be a better location and some of the facilities could be upgraded
18-24 years
First gen student
The best part of the University experience is all the opportunities and facilities at our fingertips ! However - make these resources and opportunities more known and easily accessible , i feel sometimes as if i’m missing facilities i could really use by not having enough knowledge on what the university offers. The worst part is probably the amount of money i spend coming into campus to study and believe the university should have a hand in funding commute for students
Brighton is a lovely place to live and there is a lot going on for students! Living on campus is very expensive and the most affordable accommodation is being replaced at the minute:( but I think this will probably be the same at most unis. Most of my lecturers are kind and helpful.
Lack of communication between students and university. Individuals may struggle but teachers are not always there to provide guidance on the course. In my opinion, teachers know majority of students will perform badly and find it easier to focus on students whom are performing better and ignore the students who are trying but get no support.
I would like the uni to accept more students especially over 2nd year students to live on campus if possible. Also, I hope to have more time to discuss our tutors or lecturers in office hours. I feel current office hour is not enough to discuss. However, the environment for studying and other activities in my uni is really good.
The uni itself is brilliant and the teaching staff are excellent. The university management however is poor and do not support staff or students the way they should because they’re too concerned with profit instead of their people.
The course structure is great, location is beautiful and lively. The student facilities could be better.
Great: the professors and tutors are amazing people. they make learning fun and easy. the optional modules are very interesting. Bad: the curriculum is extremely weak in terms of giving psychology students a clear understanding of different mental disorders. information we learned about clinical psych is very choppy as it was delivered in individual lectures. we don’t have a well-rounded overall idea of the ICD-10 or dsm 5. we only know some symptoms of some disorders. also, the course doesn’t give us any practical experience in anything except for coding. we’re going to graduate with not much other than essay writing & test taking skills, which aren’t that helpful in the real world. psychology degrees in other countries have a mandatory year of experience that the uni provides in institutions depending on what the students interests are in their last year (research, clinical, advertising). when i interned in a psychiatric hospital in Bahrain, psychology students from other uni’s knew a lot of things that we were never taught at sussex
the best: the lecturers and the range of information that they provide in the lectures the worst: it feels as if there isn’t a chance to build a relationship with the lecturers and the seminar teachers
I love the course that I study - the modules are always engaging in terms of critical thinking and my modules are always interesting to me. I also really like the newly opened student centre, and I’ve used it often to go in and complete my work and focus. However, outside of academic study the university is a little lacking. Firstly i feel as though the student union and societies aren’t very encouraging of bringing students together and organising events for people to interact with each other unless you participate in a sport. I have compared this to other universities and the experience seems more interactive and engaging as societies will organise events in/off campus for people to meet and socialise with each other, as sometimes societies people have already formed their own groups and it is hard for people like myself to branch out. Another thing is I feel as though the support for people of lower socioeconomic backgrounds is a lacking when it comes to on campus accommodation. I lived in lewes court last year, and in comparison to other accommodations such as east slope - when problems with the accommodation facilities arose, east slope were more attentive to the tenants needs and responded quicker in contrast to tenants in lewes court. And now with the news of west slope being built (I believe lewes court will eventually be demolished and in future, Norwich house too) there becomes less and less available options for students of a lower income background to be able afford on campus accommodation as all the newer builds are more expensive.
4.3
The University of Sussex is an interesting and good university in my experience so far the professors at the University have been incredibly supportive of the students they check up on students to ensure they're on the right track for success and degree completion. The level of opportunities I've heard from them and I'm being emailed from is consistent in its high quality and high utility to a future career that I'd want to start up. The quality of teaching that you receive from the lecturers here as well is nice the lecturers are nice and friendly and approachable if you want to ask any questions about your degree or about how to maximise scores for an essay and or test. The
The university of Sussex had been quite a good university for me currently in the course that I am studying. I've received quick and timely responses from attentive and helpful lecturers whenever I ask for solutions or questions to a problem course related that I am facing. I've never felt like I'm intruding when I ask questions in quite welcomed and accepted by all of the lecturers. But fortunately I haven't had to ask too many questions because the teaching quality is good so I usually get it the first time it is explained the seminars are quite helpful for consolidation of the knowledge you already have when it comes to the lectures. And the library facilities are very broad and vast and useful as well whether you want a quiet place to just go to be rewatch your lectures or to just go to and learn around your course. There is never a point where I felt like I was left wanting when it came to the facilities everything I needed in terms of computers I could find it even if the library had all the computers used there are the computer labs around the school and IT suites as well. In terms of the student union It took a while for me to find a society I genuinely enjoyed although I only tried like 2 but of those 2 I tried I had fun in the chess society which I enjoyed being there (I don't take it too well if I lose too much though). The sheer amount of opportunities I get emailed with is a lot of and demonstrates how attentive this university really is to ensuring the career prospects of its students from what I've experienced I at least get emailed with email a week with a huge list of different career prospects and internships I could apply for. The course content so far has been relatively easy for me I suppose if I was to say what the most interesting would be it'd be the A. I component of it but then again I do like learning how to program if I'm being honest. Overall I think this is quite a good university and if I had to choose to go to it again I would.
I like the privacy of owning an ensuite. The Internet and WiFi is quite dependable and fast if I'm being honest. I like it and it's good as long as you manage it well keep it clean and tidy it. The least favourite part is the fire alarms if I'm being honest but I'm not sure if I can blame that on the establishment the students probably deserve that blame.