Overseas applications up
There has been a 7% increase in the number of overseas applications to study for an undergraduate degree at Sussex compared with this time last year, new figures reveal.
Overseas students are those from outside the UK and the rest of the European Union.
Rob Evans, Head of Admissions, said: “There has been good growth in Law, Psychology, Global Studies and Media, Film and Music from already healthy numbers. Early indications are that almost 600 international undergraduates will start at Sussex this autumn.”
The number of overseas applications for postgraduate taught courses, meanwhile, is currently very similar to 2012 – but the number of offers made to applicants is up nearly 8%.
Rob said: “We hope to see a gradual increase in postgraduate international applications as the cycle continues.
“Current figures need to be viewed in terms of considerable growth in applications over recent years. The number of overseas applications is well over twice the figure for 2009.”
Business, Management and Economics remains the largest school in terms of applications and the number of overseas applicants applying for postgraduate taught courses in Media, Film and Music has exceeded 1,000 for the first time.
So the number of postgraduate students from overseas starting at Sussex in 2013 is expected to grow yet further this year and could be several hundred higher than the intake of 1,106 in 2012.
And there is more good news: the number of applications from overseas to carry out postgraduate research at Sussex is more than double the same point in 2012.
International students now account for almost two-thirds of applications and this increase has resulted in almost double the number of offers being made to prospective research students from overseas.