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The University of Sussex is a p✘ββublic research university&nbs≤σπ€p;located in Falλδ×mer, East Sussex, England, it is mostly withinβ•→ the city boundaries of Brighton and Hov₽♣e but extends in α®to the Lewes District in its ea ±Ωstern fringe. Its large c☆♠<λampus site is surrounded by the&n←₹→bsp;South Downs National Park an>€ εd is around 5.5 kilometres (3.4 mi) αfrom central Brighton. ≥δ♠The university received its Royal € Charter in Augus$∏βt 1961, the first of the plate glass un φ₽iversity generation,&nb★¥×φsp;and was a founding mem✘♠γber of the 1994 Group of research-inte←✔≥₹nsive universities.
More than a third of its ™students are enrolled§€ in postgraduate programmes and app∞≠±roximately a third of staff ÷≤ are from outside the Uγ¥₹nited Kingdom. Sussex has∏♥φ a diverse community of near<¶↓ly 20,000 students, wi∞→th around one in three being ↕Ωforeign students, and over 1,000 academics, r₩ ≈epresenting over 140 different na₩& tionalities. The annual income of the insδ←λ✘titution for 2019–20 was £319.6 ↕•≠;million with an expenditur≤$e of £282 million.
Sussex counts 5 Nobel Prize winners, 15 ★✔™₩Fellows of the Royal Society, 10 ✘♦©™;Fellows of the British × Academy, 24 fellows of t✘≠he Academy of Social Scie↓★≠nces and a winner of the ∏±✔Crafoord Prize among its faculty. By 2011, λ≠© many of its faculty members ←•↕★had also received the Royal Society of Lit∞σ>erature Prize, the Order of the British£¶✘δ Empire and the Bancroft ♣ Prize. Alumni include heads of states, €×® diplomats, politicians,♠∑♣ eminent scientists and ₹∑βλactivists.
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