Established in 1961 by Royal Charter, University of Sussex is a public research university, the first of the “Plate glass universities”. Its campus is surrounded by the South Downs National Park near Brighton. The university is a founding member of the 1994 Group of research-intensive universities. University of Sussex has a diverse community representing over 140 different nationalities. Its faculty counts 5 Nobel Prize winners, 15 Fellows of the Royal Society, 10 Fellows of the British Academy, 24 fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences and a winner of the Crafoord Prize. The university is ranked among the 200 best universities in the world by all the major rankings, except for QS World University Rankings which places it 246th worldwide.
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