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50 years

August 1993 - July 1994

  • Pro-Chancellor Richard Attenborough is awarded a life peerage in the Queen's Birthday Honours
  • Sussex has five British Academy Fellows and 18 Fellows of the Royal Society
  • 21 professorial appointments are made; 15 internal and six external
  • There are a raft of development plans, including a modest increase in student numbers; an increase in research funding especially through contracts, services and consultancies; the expansion of student housing; a development programme aimed at improving shopping, entertainment, sports facilities, a new children's facility and new Students' Union offices; and a redesign of existing buildings to provide much-needed space for academic activities; and information services including a new part-time education centre in Falmer House
  • Mature students arrive via Access courses and Foundation degrees in science

Student numbers

8,543 students: 6,282 undergraduates and 2,261 postgraduates

Nearly 30 per cent of undergraduates are mature students, ie over 21 when they start their degree, and there is growing number in their late 50s and 60s

student gender ratio *

*at December 1993

Undergraduate humanities and social sciences

2,504 women: 1442 men

Undergraduate science and engineering

898 women: 1,438 men

Total undergraduates

3,402 women: 2,880 men

Postgraduate humanities and social sciences **

735 women: 647 men

Postgraduate science and engineering **

228 women: 534 men

Total postgraduates **

963 women: 1,181 men

Overall total **

4,365 women: 4,061 men

** differences between these figures and the Student Numbers figures reflect different surveys and returns

Staff numbers

826 members of staff

Staff gender ratio

Teaching faculty

125 women: 372 men

Research faculty

81 women: 174 men

Administration faculty

30 women: 44 men