But as Moshe Gariani noted Brighton has it's pluses and minuses and UoS have invested, a little controversially, a huge amount of money into the Business School.
Maybe, my time at uni seems to be getting further and further away...
All I can say is that, when I went in 2012, Sussex wanted AAA and Brighton wanted ABB for English. Both are pretty high entry requirements, and when you compared them with some of the real low-tariff (I seem to remember...
I think Sussex are fine as they are about to invest £550million in rebuilding half of the campus. The article implies that they are "lower-tariff" universities, so it pretty much discounts either institution in Brighton.