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Is the University of Sussex any good?

I've been considering uni applications a bit ahead of time, and want to study creative writing. I've been looking round, and I saw that the University of Sussex offers a creative writing course. I like the look of the university, and Brighton itself, but I've heard some iffy things about the university. Does anyone have any experience of what it is like?

Reply 1

Bilbolackings

Hi, I went to sussex and actually represented that course at a couple open evenings before they had students on it to represent it themselves! I'd done several of the modules by choice whilst studying lit and lang. I loved sussex and Sam (who made the course) was awesome. The University itself is really nice and it's got a lot of societies and things to do imo.

I would highly recommend going to an open day if you can to discuss with the current lecturers your expectations and see if they match up with what the course offers. Alternatively if you'd need to travel too far you could email and see if you could set up a zoom call with a lecturer (they're always happy to do that).

Hope this helps, I'm happy to answer more specific questions if that'd be helpful :smile:

Reply 2

_kvymnnn

As a fellow applicant, what do you mean by the "iffy" things you've heard?

Reply 3

caffeinexcthulhu

Original post by Bilbolackings

Hi, I went to sussex and actually represented that course at a couple open evenings before they had students on it to represent it themselves! I'd done several of the modules by choice whilst studying lit and lang. I loved sussex and Sam (who made the course) was awesome. The University itself is really nice and it's got a lot of societies and things to do imo.
I would highly recommend going to an open day if you can to discuss with the current lecturers your expectations and see if they match up with what the course offers. Alternatively if you'd need to travel too far you could email and see if you could set up a zoom call with a lecturer (they're always happy to do that).
Hope this helps, I'm happy to answer more specific questions if that'd be helpful :smile:

Ah, that's great, thank you! I'll definitely check out the open days

Reply 4

caffeinexcthulhu

I'm aware of more of a stigma surrounding 'newer' universities (i.e. that the degrees are 'less valuable' than those from older universities) - I'm sure these ideas are unsubstantiated, I was just wondering if you might have anything to add for or against that

Reply 5

Bilbolackings

Original post by caffeinexcthulhu

I'm not 100% sure on this but as far as I know, from conversations with people and my lecturers at uni, it's less about 'newer' universities and more to do with the networking the uni does. So doing an arts degree at a uni that specialises in science and has a lot of science research programmes probably won't give you many networking opportunities. My advice would be to focus less on the quality of the degree and more on the quality of opportunities the uni provides you.