• The University is expecting to admit 200 students in 1962-63 out of around 900 applicants. All potential students are interviewed
• Economic Geography is added to the syllabus
• 34 new members of faculty are appointed
• Senate agrees that undergraduates should possess and wear gowns at all University occasions including leave-taking, exams, collections, and graduating ceremonies, but faculty no longer have to wear gowns at lectures
• Undergraduates are expected to be in by midnight and guests can be entertained in rooms until 11pm. Undergraduates are obliged to request permission to stay out after midnight and if they go away during term time
• Many students are living in guesthouses and have to abide by those rules
• Students in the first year are not allowed to live in self-catering flats and second years and above have to ask permission to do so both from parents and Senior Tutor. Even then the house owner has to live on the premises and there can be no mixed-sex sharing
• Severe weather delays work on the Arts building
• Falmer house is the hub of the University social and cultural life
• Discussions on introducing arts subjects to science students and vice versa begin
• The Students' Union is well established with 20 Union societies and lots of social events taking place
• The Student Health Service is set up, with two part-time doctors, one part-time psychiatric consultant and one nurse
• The bookshop is planned to open October 1963
• Bulletins are set up to inform readership of events
• There is a programme of Society meetings including a Socialist club, a Music Club, Anglican Society, Catholic Society, French Society, Sussex University Theatre, Football Club, and Literary Society

Staff numbers

59 members of faculty: 54 full-time and five part-time staff