University of Sussex

The University of Sussex is a public research university at Falmer in Brighton and Hove, East Sussex, England, established by royal charter on 16 August 1961 as the first of Britain's new wave of plate glass universities.萨塞克斯大学（University of Sussex）是位于英格兰东萨塞克斯郡布莱顿-霍夫法尔默的一所公立研究型大学，1961 年 8 月 16 日获皇家特许状，是英国「平板玻璃大学」新浪潮中的第一所。

It enrolled 17,290 students in 2024/25, of whom 12,920 were undergraduates and 4,375 postgraduates, and counts five Nobel Prize winners, 15 Fellows of the Royal Society and 10 Fellows of the British Academy among its faculty.2024/25 学年该校共有 17,290 名学生，其中本科生 12,920 人、研究生 4,375 人；其教师中有五位诺贝尔奖得主、15 位皇家学会院士与 10 位英国学术院院士。

Sussex is placed joint 273rd in the QS World University Rankings 2027, joint 273rd in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027, 296th in the U.S. News Best Global Universities 2026-2027 and in the 201-300 band of the Shanghai ARWU 2026.该校在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中并列第 273 位，2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名并列第 273 位，《美国新闻与世界报道》2026-2027 最佳全球大学排名第 296 位，2026 年软科世界大学学术排名位列 201-300 区间。

History

• The university traces its origins to a public meeting at the Royal Pavilion in Brighton in December 1911, called to raise funds for a municipal university, an effort halted by the First World War and whose money bought books for the Municipal Technical College.该校的渊源可追溯到 1911 年 12 月在布莱顿皇家穹顶宫举行的一场公众集会，旨在为筹建市立大学筹款；计划因第一次世界大战中断，所募款项转用于为市立技术学院购置图书。
• The scheme was revived in the 1950s, and in June 1958 the government approved the corporation's proposal to establish a university at Brighton.该计划于 1950 年代重启；1958 年 6 月，政府批准了筹建公司提出的在布莱顿设立大学的方案。
• The institution was registered as a company in 1959 under the name of the University of Sussex and received its royal charter on 16 August 1961, making it, apart from Keele University, the first university established in the United Kingdom since the Second World War.该校 1959 年以「萨塞克斯大学」之名注册为公司，并于 1961 年 8 月 16 日获皇家特许状；除基尔大学外，它是英国自第二次世界大战以来创办的第一所大学。
• Sussex was founded with an innovative structure of multidisciplinary Schools of Study rather than traditional departments, an approach its founding figure Asa Briggs described as a new map of learning.萨塞克斯大学创立时采用「跨学科学院」而非传统院系的创新架构，其创办人之一阿萨·布里格斯将其形容为「一幅新的知识地图」。
• The university grew from 52 students in 1961/62 to 3,200 in 1967/68, while Falmer House opened in 1962 and Knoyle Hall became the first hall of residence.该校学生人数从 1961/62 学年的 52 人增至 1967/68 学年的 3,200 人；法尔默楼 1962 年启用，诺伊尔宿舍则是第一座学生宿舍。
• The students' union brought Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix and Chuck Berry to perform in the University Common Room, part of a lively early cultural scene on campus.学生会在「大学公共休息室」邀请平克·弗洛伊德、吉米·亨德里克斯与查克·贝里演出，构成了早期活跃的校园文化场景。
• Among the founding faculty were the Nobel laureate John Cornforth and the biologist John Maynard Smith, the international relations historian Martin Wight, the critic David Daiches, the physicist Roger Blin-Stoyle, the chemist Colin Eaborn, Asa Briggs and the economist Christopher Freeman.建校初期的教师包括诺贝尔奖得主约翰·康福斯、生物学家约翰·梅纳德·史密斯、国际关系史家马丁·怀特、批评家戴维·戴奇斯、物理学家罗杰·布林-斯托伊尔、化学家科林·伊班、阿萨·布里格斯与经济学家克里斯托弗·弗里曼。
• The Indian historian Ranajit Guha served as Reader in History at Sussex from 1962 to 1981, and it was there that he founded the Subaltern Studies Group.印度历史学家拉纳吉特·古哈于 1962 至 1981 年在萨塞克斯大学担任历史学高级讲师，并在此创立了「庶民研究」学派。
• In the late 1960s the United Nations asked Sussex academics for recommendations on science policy for developing nations, producing the document known as the Sussex Manifesto.1960 年代末，联合国请萨塞克斯学者就面向发展中国家的科学政策提出建议，由此产生了著名的《萨塞克斯宣言》。
• In 1973 students prevented the American political scientist Samuel P. Huntington from speaking at the university as a protest against the Vietnam War, and red paint was thrown over a visiting United States embassy spokesman.1973 年，学生以抗议越南战争为由阻止美国政治学家塞缪尔·P·亨廷顿在校演讲，并向到访的美国大使馆发言人泼洒红漆。
• Sussex teams won the television quiz University Challenge in 1967 and 1969, and by 1980 the university had edged out Oxford to become the British university with the highest income from research grants and contracts.萨塞克斯大学代表队于 1967 年与 1969 年两度赢得电视智力竞赛《大学挑战赛》；到 1980 年，该校在科研拨款与合同收入上略超牛津，成为英国该项收入最高的大学。
• In 2004 the university replaced its traditional coat of arms with a modern US monogram logo, and in 2011 its fiftieth anniversary Making the Future campaign raised more than 51.3 million pounds.2004 年，该校以「US」缩写现代标志取代传统纹章；2011 年五十周年「创造未来」筹款活动募集逾 5,130 万英镑。
• Sussex divested from fossil fuels in 2018 after a four-year campaign by the students' union, and in 2021, during the COVID-19 pandemic, it was among the few British universities to return to in-person teaching.在学生会长达四年的推动下，该校于 2018 年撤出化石燃料投资；2021 年新冠疫情期间，它是少数恢复线下教学的英国大学之一。
• In March 2011 a sex trafficking ring operating from a flat in the Park Village halls of residence was broken up, ending in the conviction of a British woman and four Hungarian men.2011 年 3 月，一个以帕克村学生宿舍某单元为据点的性贩运团伙被捣毁，一名英国女子与四名匈牙利男子最终被判有罪。
• In October 2021 a campaign against the philosopher Kathleen Stock over her views on gender identity drew national attention, and the vice-chancellor Adam Tickell undertook to protect academic freedom while the University and College Union accused the university of institutional transphobia.2021 年 10 月，针对哲学家凯瑟琳·斯托克性别认同观点的运动引发全国关注；副校长亚当·蒂克尔承诺保护学术自由，而大学与学院工会则指责校方存在「制度性跨性别恐惧」。
• In March 2025 the Office for Students fined the university 585,000 pounds over its free speech policy on trans and non-binary equality, a penalty the High Court rejected on 29 April 2026, with the vice-chancellor Sasha Roseneil maintaining the university's commitments.2025 年 3 月，英国学生事务办公室因该校关于跨性别与非二元性别平等的言论自由政策而处以 58.5 万英镑罚款；2026 年 4 月 29 日高等法院撤销了该罚款，副校长萨莎·罗斯尼尔则重申了校方的承诺。
• The Institute of Development Studies originated as a research institute in 1966 and became financially and constitutionally independent of the university as a charitable company limited by guarantee.发展研究所于 1966 年作为研究机构设立，其后以担保有限公司形式在财务与法律上独立于大学。
• A restructuring implemented in September 2003 replaced the original Schools of Study with single disciplinary schools, while the university retained multidisciplinarity through electives and joint honours degrees.2003 年 9 月实施的重组以单一学科学院取代了最初的跨学科学院，同时通过选修课与联合荣誉学位保留跨学科特色。
• In 2009 Sussex introduced a new structure of Schools of Studies headed by Heads of School rather than deans, and in 2020 the schools of English, of History Art History and Philosophy and of Media Film and Music were merged into a single School of Media, Arts and Humanities.2009 年，该校推行由「学院院长」而非系主任领衔的新学院架构；2020 年，英语学院、历史与艺术史及哲学学院、媒体电影与音乐学院合并为单一的媒体、艺术与人文学院。
• The university opened the Brighton and Sussex Medical School jointly with the University of Brighton after a licence was granted in 2002, taking its first students in 2003.该校与布莱顿大学合办布莱顿-萨塞克斯医学院，2002 年获得办学许可，2003 年招收首批学生。

Academics

• Sussex was founded with multidisciplinary Schools of Study rather than departments, the original schools being African and Asian Studies, Biological Sciences, Molecular Sciences, Cognitive and Computing Sciences, Cultural and Community Studies, Engineering and Applied Sciences, English and American Studies, European Studies, Mathematical and Physical Sciences and Social Sciences.该校以跨学科学院而非系所建制立校，最初的学院包括非洲与亚洲研究、生物科学、分子科学、认知与计算科学、文化与社区研究、工程与应用科学、英美研究、欧洲研究、数学与物理科学以及社会科学。
• After the September 2003 restructuring the university organised itself into disciplinary schools covering engineering and informatics, life sciences, mathematical and physical sciences, psychology, education and social work, global studies, law politics and sociology, and media arts and humanities.2003 年 9 月重组后，该校按学科划分为工程与信息、生命科学、数学与物理科学、心理学、教育与社会工作、全球研究、法律政治与社会学，以及媒体艺术与人文等学院。
• In 2024/25 Sussex had 17,290 students, of whom 12,920 were undergraduates and 4,375 postgraduates, and in 2023/24 it had 17,765 students, just under 14,000 undergraduates and around 4,000 postgraduates.2024/25 学年该校有学生 17,290 人，其中本科生 12,920 人、研究生 4,375 人；2023/24 学年则有 17,765 名学生，本科生近 1.4 万人、研究生约 4,000 人。
• About 5,500 students came from outside the United Kingdom, or one in three of the student body, and the university draws students from some 140 nationalities.约 5,500 名学生来自英国以外，约占全校学生的三分之一；该校学生来自约 140 个国家和地区。
• Sussex offers over 400 undergraduate programmes, more than 210 postgraduate taught programmes and over 70 PhD programmes, supported by around 1,000 teaching and research staff, of whom about 300 are research-only.该校开设 400 多个本科专业、210 多个授课型研究生项目与 70 多个博士项目，由约 1,000 名教学与研究人员支撑，其中约 300 人专职从事研究。
• Home-fee undergraduates pay 9,250 pounds a year, the highest tuition fee a British university may charge, and the university is a medium-tariff institution whose entrants averaged 117-126 UCAS points, equivalent to BBC to ABB at A level, with 132 points in 2022/23 HESA data.英国本土本科生学费为每年 9,250 英镑，这是英国大学可收取的最高学费；该校属中等录取门槛，新生平均 117-126 个 UCAS 分数，相当于 A-level 的 BBC 至 ABB，2022/23 学年英国高等教育统计局数据则为 132 分。
• About 11 per cent of undergraduates were educated at independent schools according to the 2023 Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide.据 2023 年《泰晤士报》与《星期日泰晤士报》优秀大学指南，约 11% 的本科生毕业于私立中学。
• The Brighton and Sussex Medical School, run with the University of Brighton and located at the Falmer campus, was the first medical school in South East England outside London and admits 136 students a year.布莱顿-萨塞克斯医学院与布莱顿大学合办、设于法尔默校区，是英格兰东南部伦敦以外地区的第一所医学院，每年招收 136 名学生。
• The Institute of Development Studies was named the first in the United Kingdom and the fourth university-affiliated think tank in the world in the 2017 Global Go To Think Tank Index, and the Science Policy Research Unit was ranked the third best science and technology think tank in the world in the same index.在 2017 年「全球智库指数」中，发展研究所被评为全英第一、全球大学附属智库第四；科学政策研究单位则被评为全球第三佳科学与技术智库。
• The Sussex Innovation Centre, opened in 1996, provides services to more than 40 companies in information technology, biotechnology, media and engineering.1996 年成立的萨塞克斯创新中心为信息技术、生物技术、媒体与工程等领域 40 多家企业提供服务。
• The university hosts the STEPS Centre, the Sussex European Institute and the Centre for American Studies, and publishes journals including the IDS Bulletin, the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, World Trade Review, the Journal of Banking and Finance and the European Journal of International Relations.该校设有 STEPS 中心、萨塞克斯欧洲研究所与美国研究中心，并出版《发展研究所通讯》《民族与移民研究杂志》《世界贸易评论》《银行与金融杂志》与《欧洲国际关系杂志》等期刊。
• Research at Sussex was assessed in the 2014 Research Excellence Framework as 98 per cent world-leading, internationally excellent or internationally recognised, with 28 per cent rated world-leading and 48 per cent internationally excellent.在 2014 年「研究卓越框架」评估中，该校 98% 的研究成果被评为世界领先、国际优秀或国际认可，其中 28% 为世界领先、48% 为国际优秀。
• The university recorded about 65 million pounds of research income in 2017 and maintains more than 40 university research centres and over 15 strategic research centres, including the Genome Damage and Stability Centre.2017 年该校科研收入约 6,500 万英镑；校内设 40 多个研究中心与 15 个以上战略研究中心，其中包括基因组损伤与稳定性研究中心。
• Many of the university's research centres are funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, of whose 21 Centres for Doctoral Training Sussex hosts one, and the university belongs to the CHASE doctoral partnership and the South East Network for Social Sciences.该校多个研究中心由经济与社会研究理事会资助，该理事会 21 个博士培养中心之一即设于此；学校亦属 CHASE 博士培养联合体与英格兰东南社会科学网络。
• The Doctoral School supports research master's and doctoral students and post-doctoral fellows across all schools, and Sussex awards MRes, MA, MS, PGCert, PGDip and LLM degrees as part of its postgraduate provision.博士学院为各学院的研究型硕士、博士生与博士后提供支持；该校的研究生培养涵盖研究硕士、文学硕士、理学硕士、研究生证书、研究生文凭与法学硕士等学位。
• Undergraduates may take the Junior Research Associate scheme, an eight-week summer research placement with funding, and an international version runs with Georgetown University, the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the University of California, Santa Cruz.本科生可参加「初级研究助理」计划——为期八周、带资助的暑期研究实习；另有与乔治城大学、香港中文大学及加州大学圣克鲁斯分校合作的国际版本。

Campus

• The university is based at a single campus at Falmer next to Stanmer Park, extending into the Lewes District, with Falmer railway station about nine minutes from Brighton station and central London about an hour away by train.该校位于法尔默的单一体校区，紧邻斯坦默公园并延伸至刘易斯区；法尔默火车站距布莱顿站约九分钟车程，乘火车约一小时可达伦敦市中心。
• The campus was designed by Sir Basil Spence, whose partnership began planning in 1959 and delivered seventeen buildings over fifteen years to 1971, working in brick with interlocking green courtyards and a stream of low buildings.校区由巴塞尔·斯彭斯爵士设计；其事务所自 1959 年起规划，至 1971 年的十五年间建成十七座建筑，以砖材、相互连通的绿色庭院与连绵的低层建筑为特色。
• The original buildings won a Royal Institute of British Architects medal and a Civic Trust award, the core buildings were listed in 1993, and Falmer House is listed Grade I for exceptional interest while the other original buildings are Grade II.最初的建筑曾获英国皇家建筑师学会奖章与公民信托奖；核心建筑群于 1993 年列入保护名录，其中法尔默楼因「特殊价值」列为一级保护建筑，其余原有建筑为二级。
• The Meeting House, a circular chapel designed by Basil Spence and completed in 1966 with patterned brickwork, won a Civic Trust award in 1969 and received a tapestry commissioned from John Piper in 1976, its motto being the words Be still, and know from Psalm 46.「聚会所」是由巴塞尔·斯彭斯设计、1966 年落成的圆形礼拜堂，以花纹砖砌著称，1969 年获公民信托奖，1976 年委托约翰·派珀制作挂毯；其箴言取自《诗篇》第 46 篇的「你们要休息，要知道」。
• The Gardner Arts Centre opened in 1969 as the first university campus arts centre in Britain, with a 480-seat theatre, closed in the summer of 2007 and reopened in the autumn of 2015 as the Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts.加德纳艺术中心 1969 年启用，设有 480 座剧场，是英国首个大学校园艺术中心；2007 年夏关闭，2015 年秋以「阿滕伯勒创意艺术中心」之名重开。
• The campus is largely self-contained, with eight cafes and restaurants, a post office, a Co-op Food store, a weekly market, a bank, a pharmacy, a health centre with a dentist and childcare facilities.校区大体自给自足，设有八家咖啡馆与餐厅、邮局、Co-op 食品超市、每周集市、银行、药房，以及配备牙医诊所与托儿服务的健康中心。
• The library was opened by Queen Elizabeth II on 13 November 1964 and holds manuscripts and first editions of Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen and Rudyard Kipling, the New Statesman Archive and, until 2013, the Mass-Observation Archive.图书馆由伊丽莎白二世女王于 1964 年 11 月 13 日启用，藏有弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫、简·奥斯汀与鲁德亚德·吉卜林的手稿与初版书、《新政治家》档案，以及 2013 年之前的「大众观察」档案。
• There are nine university-managed halls of residence on campus and one off-campus block, housing about 5,000 students, with Kulukundis House from the 1970s, Stanmer Court and Swanborough from the 2000s and Northfield opened in September 2011, while the West Slope plan of 2020 was to add about 1,000 bedrooms.校内有九座学校管理的宿舍与一处校外宿舍楼，可容纳约 5,000 名学生；库卢昆迪斯楼建于 1970 年代，斯坦默苑与斯旺伯勒建于 2000 年代，诺斯菲尔德楼 2011 年 9 月启用；2020 年的「西坡」计划拟再增设约 1,000 间卧室。
• The Falmer Stadium, home of Brighton and Hove Albion Football Club, stands near the campus, and Sussex's own Falmer Sports Complex includes more than 40 acres of playing fields alongside the Sussex Sports Centre.布莱顿-霍夫阿尔比恩足球俱乐部的主场法尔默球场紧邻校区；萨塞克斯自有的法尔默运动场包含 40 多英亩球场，与萨塞克斯体育中心相邻。

Reputation

• In the QS World University Rankings 2027 the University of Sussex is placed joint 273rd in the world.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，萨塞克斯大学位列世界并列第 273 位。
• The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 places it joint 273rd in the world.2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名将其列为世界并列第 273 位。
• The U.S. News Best Global Universities 2026-2027 ranks it 296th in the world.《美国新闻与世界报道》2026-2027 最佳全球大学排名将其列为世界第 296 位。
• In the Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities 2026 it appears in the 201-300 band.在 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名中，其位列 201-300 区间。
• In the Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2026 Sussex was placed 45th nationally, the Complete University Guide 2026 placed it 43rd in the United Kingdom and the Times Higher Education 2024 ranking put it 30th in the United Kingdom and 201-250th in the world.在《泰晤士报》与《星期日泰晤士报》2026 优秀大学指南中，该校位列全英第 45 位；《完全大学指南》2026 将其列为英国第 43 位；泰晤士高等教育 2024 年排名将其列为英国第 30 位、世界 201-250 区间。
• Sussex was ranked first in the world for Development Studies in the QS World University Rankings by Subject in 2016, 2017 and 2018 and again in 2021.在 QS 世界大学学科排名中，该校的发展研究学于 2016、2017、2018 及 2021 年位列世界第一。
• In the Times Higher Education subject rankings for 2018 Sussex placed 29th in the world for social sciences, 49th for law and 48th for business and economics, and domestically it was fourth for sociology, seventh for geography, fourth for politics and international relations, tenth for psychology and second for communication and media studies.在泰晤士高等教育 2018 年学科排名中，该校社会科学列世界第 29 位、法学第 49 位、商业与经济第 48 位；在英国国内，社会学列第 4、地理学第 7、政治与国际关系第 4、心理学第 10、传播与媒体研究第 2。
• The CWTS Leiden Ranking 2016 placed Sussex among the world's top 100 universities for the social sciences and the ARWU 2016 ranked it among the world's top 150, while U.S. News placed it 90th for psychological sciences.2016 年莱顿大学 CWTS 排名将该校列为世界社会科学前 100 名；2016 年软科排名将其列入世界前 150；《美国新闻与世界报道》则将其心理科学列为第 90 位。
• OpenAlex credits the University of Sussex with 83,353 works and 6,739,513 citations, and the university recorded about 65 million pounds of research income in 2017.OpenAlex 收录萨塞克斯大学 83,353 篇成果与 6,739,513 次引用；2017 年该校科研收入约 6,500 万英镑。
• Its faculty honours include five Nobel laureates, 15 Fellows of the Royal Society, 10 Fellows of the British Academy, 24 Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences and a winner of the Crafoord Prize.其教师荣誉包括五位诺贝尔奖得主、15 位皇家学会院士、10 位英国学术院院士、24 位社会科学院院士，以及一位克拉福德奖得主。

Student life

• The students' union runs two bars, including Falmer Bar, which once hosted The Who, and supports 261 student clubs and societies.学生会经营两家酒吧，其中法尔默酒吧曾接待过「谁人乐队」；学生会还支持 261 个学生社团。
• In 2017 Sussex was ranked top in the United Kingdom for its political scene, a position shared with Cambridge, Oxford, Manchester, Goldsmiths and the London School of Economics.2017 年该校被评为全英政治氛围最活跃的大学，与剑桥、牛津、曼彻斯特、金史密斯及伦敦政治经济学院并列。
• The university won the Association of Graduate Careers Advisory Services award for Student Engagement in 2016 and its students are closely involved in the life of the city of Brighton.该校 2016 年获毕业生职业咨询服务机构协会颁发的「学生参与」奖；其学生也深度参与布莱顿的城市生活。
• A new Student Centre replaced the former Student Life Centre in 2022, offering financial, counselling, careers and disability support and housing the Spirit of Sussex Award.2022 年，新的学生中心取代了原学生生活中心，提供财务、心理咨询、职业与残障支持，并设有「萨塞克斯精神奖」。
• The First-Generation Scholars scheme supports students who are the first in their family to attend university, and in 2017 the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn met first-generation scholar students on campus, while the Sussex Access Programme raises attainment in local schools.「第一代大学生学者」计划资助家中首位上大学的学生；2017 年工党领袖杰里米·科尔宾在校内会见第一代大学生学者，学校还通过「萨塞克斯入学计划」提升本地学校的学业水平。
• Sports facilities include the Sussex Sports Centre on campus and the Falmer Sports Complex with over 40 acres of playing fields, and 42 Sussex teams competed in British Universities and Colleges Sport in 2018.体育设施包括校内的萨塞克斯体育中心与拥有 40 多英亩球场的法尔默运动场；2018 年该校有 42 支队伍参加英国大学与学院体育联赛。
• University Radio Falmer, founded in 1976, was one of the first student radio stations in the country and took a bronze award at the 2008 UK Student Radio Awards, and its alumni include Helen Boaden and Clive Myrie.1976 年创办的「法尔默大学电台」是全国最早的学生电台之一，2008 年获英国学生电台奖铜奖；其校友包括海伦·博登与克莱夫·迈里。
• The Badger, a fortnightly student newspaper, began publication in October 1995 and was formerly known as Unionews from the 1970s, while UniTV, launched in September 2010, won seven National Student Television Awards in three years.半月刊学生报纸《獾》于 1995 年 10 月创刊，其前身是 1970 年代起的 Unionews；2010 年 9 月成立的 UniTV 在三年内七度获得全国学生电视奖。
• The university's coat of arms, granted on 15 March 1962, bears two Saxon crowns, a sable dolphin, six martlets and two pelicans standing on books, and the university's motto is Be still, and know.该校纹章于 1962 年 3 月 15 日授予，图记包括两顶撒克逊王冠、一条黑海豚、六只无足燕与两只立在书上的鹈鹕；校训为「你们要休息，要知道」。

Notable people

• Asa Lord Briggs, the historian who was a founding figure of the university, described its interdisciplinary model as a new map of learning.历史学家阿萨·布里格斯勋爵是该校的创办人之一，曾把其跨学科模式形容为「一幅新的知识地图」。
• Sir Basil Spence designed the university's Falmer campus, and his plans delivered seventeen buildings between 1959 and 1971.巴塞尔·斯彭斯爵士主持设计该校法尔默校区，其规划在 1959 至 1971 年间建成十七座建筑。
• The biologist John Maynard Smith, one of the founding fathers of Sussex biology, won the Crafoord Prize and the Kyoto Prize.生物学家约翰·梅纳德·史密斯是萨塞克斯生物学科的奠基人之一，曾获克拉福德奖与京都奖。
• Sir John Cornforth won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1975, becoming the first Sussex Nobel laureate.约翰·康福斯爵士 1975 年获得诺贝尔化学奖，成为该校首位诺贝尔奖得主。
• Sir Harry Kroto won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1996 for the discovery of fullerenes.哈里·克罗托爵士因发现富勒烯而获得 1996 年诺贝尔化学奖。
• Sir Anthony Leggett won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2003 for his work on superfluidity.安东尼·莱格特爵士因超流性研究获得 2003 年诺贝尔物理学奖。
• Sir Paul Nurse and Archer Martin were further Nobel laureates among the Sussex faculty.保罗·纳斯爵士与阿彻·马丁也是该校教师中的诺贝尔奖得主。
• Thabo Mbeki, Festus Mogae, Carlos Alvarado and Guy Scott, all of whom studied at Sussex, went on to serve as Presidents of South Africa, Botswana, Costa Rica and Zambia respectively.塔博·姆贝基、费斯图斯·莫哈埃、卡洛斯·阿尔瓦拉多与盖伊·斯科特都曾在萨塞克斯就读，后分别出任南非、博茨瓦纳、哥斯达黎加与赞比亚总统。
• Richard Attenborough, Lord Attenborough, who directed the Academy Award-winning film Gandhi, served as Chancellor of the university, with Sanjeev Bhaskar succeeding him in 2009.执导奥斯卡获奖影片《甘地》的理查德·阿滕伯勒勋爵曾任该校校监，2009 年由桑吉夫·巴斯卡接任。
• The novelist Ian McEwan, the musician Billy Idol, the artist Jeremy Deller and the economist Mariana Mazzucato are among the cultural and academic figures associated with Sussex.小说家伊恩·麦克尤恩、音乐人比利·艾多尔、艺术家杰里米·戴勒与经济学家玛丽安娜·马祖卡托等都是与萨塞克斯大学渊源颇深的人物。
• Zhang Xin, co-founder and chief executive of SOHO China, graduated from the university, and the musician Sir Paul McCartney received an honorary degree.中国企业 SOHO 中国的联合创始人兼首席执行官张欣毕业于此；音乐家保罗·麦卡特尼爵士则获该校荣誉学位。