• The first cohort for BSMS arrives
• This year sees a big rise in demand for places across the curriculum: 14,000 applicants for nearly 2000 places; seven applicants per place, five times the national average. These boom years for student applications are partly to do with national context
• Still need to attract more working-class students
• Accent Scholarships helps to widen participation
• Alumni Jeremy Deller wins the Turner Prize and praises Sussex Art Historian David Mellor
• Three hundred undergraduate degrees and 180 taught postgraduate programmes are offered
• Imogen Taylor (ED) and Celia Hunt (CCE), both in the Sussex Institute, win National Teaching awards
• CCE student Georgina Rebera wins Adult Learner of the Year Award

Statistics

THES rankings

9th in UK

17th in Europe

58th in the World

Arts and Humanities

6th in UK

22nd in the World

Social Sciences

8th in UK

18th in the World

Student numbers

Over 2,300 students are studying in CCE