Our teaching quality rated highly in the 2012 NSS results with an average of 91% overall satisfaction across the degrees.  

All Engineering and Design courses have an optional  placement year assessed as an integral part of the course, leading to the award 'Course name with an Industrial/ Professional Placement Year'.

Please read our graduate perspectives to find out more about placement years.

Sussex emphasises career development, transferable skills and professional business. For details of the places our graduates have gone on to work, please follow the link to our careers opportunities page.

The Department has strong links with industry which provides key input to the development of the Department.

Much of our research is in collaboration with industry and we work with a number of universities in the UK and abroad and we are keen to develop these links further.

Our research was highly rated in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) and is supported by our industrial links.To find out more about the areas of research in the department follow the link to our research pages.

All our engineering and product design degree courses are accredited by the relevant professional bodies (IET, IMechE, iED)

Depending on your performance, you can select BEng, MEng and/or MSc as your target degree at key study stages

The structure of our BEng and MEng degrees is sufficiently common in the first year to allow you the flexibility to change degree courses if desired.

Visit our which degree is right for me page? for more information.