School of Informatics
Welcome to the School of Informatics
Informatics — the study of the storage, transformation and communication of information — has an enormous impact on our daily lives. It contributes to and draws on ideas from many other subject areas. Informatics at Sussex is at the cutting edge of this activity and maintains a traditionally strong interdisciplinary focus.
As well as teaching and research in core aspects of computer science and software systems, the School of Informatics is an internationally renowned centre for the study of artificial intelligence, bio-inspired computing, cognitive science, digital media technologies, and human-computer interaction. Expertise in these areas is always in demand, and our graduates are highly employable: six months after graduation, over 95% are in employment or further study, and of those employed, approaching 80% are in graduate-level careers.
The quality of our teaching, student support and facilities is rated highly; for example the Guardian University Guide (2011) ranks us in the top 10 Computer Science and IT departments in the UK. All of our degree programmes are informed by high quality research. In the most recent national assessment of research quality, 75 per cent of our research outputs were rated as internationally excellent or higher, with a quarter rated as world leading.
We have strong links with industry, including a ground-breaking partnership with one of the world's leading financial services companies, and many on-going applied research and consultancy contracts.
For more information on the School please browse this site, and if you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact us.
Prof Bernard Weiss - Acting Head of School