Sussex places in The Guardian’s top 20 for 13 subject areas

The Guardian's university league table for 2019 was released today, revealing that Sussex is in the top 20 universities in 13 subject areas.

Sussex has beaten many other top universities to secure top 20 positions in American Studies, Anthropology, Chemistry, Criminology, Drama and Dance, English and Creative Writing, Geography and Environmental Studies, History, History of Art, Mathematics, Modern Languages and Linguistics, Social Work, and Sociology.

Brighton University also made the top 20 in Art and pharmacy and Pharmacology, whilst BSMS have placed 10th for medicine.

Despite success in individual subjects, Sussex's overall place on the table has fallen out of the top 20 to 26th, six down from last year. Brighton have fallen by 16 places overall from 91st to 107th, losing their top 100 spot.

The league table is based on course satisfaction, teaching satisfaction, feedback satisfaction, student to staff ratio, spend per student, the average entry tariff, value score, career within six months of graduating, and the percentage of first years who continue to second year.

The rank is then decided by an overall Guardian score out of 100 which is a rating of excellence based on all the other factors.

Sussex achieved an overall score of 71.9 out of 100 with 80% of graduates in careers within six months.

This is the first time Sussex has dropped out of the Guardian's top 20 universities since 2015, with lower course and teaching satisfaction than previous years.

See the full results here.