Accommodation for returning students

Find out how to apply for accommodation for academic year 2025/26.

Apply for accommodation

For September 2025, apply if you’re a Foundation-year student progressing into Year 1, an Undergraduate student progressing into your second or third year of study, or a Postgraduate/ PhD student continuing a further year of your current course and:

• you don’t meet our housing guarantee
• you’re looking for University accommodation.

Available accommodation

Current accommodation includes:

• East Slope townhouses: £189 per week
• East Slope ensuite: £214.83 per week
• Stanmer Court ensuite: £199.79 per week
• Northfield ensuite: £214.83 per week.

There's no deposit required for campus accommodation.

If you have a group of friends you want to live with, you can put this on the application form. We’ll offer you accommodation together, where possible.

Learn more about the accommodation application process [PDF 55KB].

Once you have applied on the Housing portal, you’ll receive a provisional room offer from January onwards. Accepting this secures your place.

Returning students with additional health requirements

Find out how to apply for housing that meets your needs if you have a declared disability or long-term health condition.

Don’t apply via both routes: this can delay the decision on your room allocation.

Getting taken off the list

If you no longer need accommodation and want to be removed, email housing@sussex.ac.uk.

Eligibility criteria

From April 2025, the University will carry out a number of checks to ensure your eligibility. 

• Reasons for offer withdrawal

  We reserve the right to withdraw your offer before you move into your accommodation if:

  • you have a history of non-payment of rent or other debt owed to the University
  • you hold an unspent criminal conviction, and the University does not consider it appropriate to offer housing. You are required to make a disclosure so that the University can discharge its safeguarding obligations for the benefit of all students.
  • you have had more than one Level 1 tenancy warning letter from the Tenancy Management Team for a breach of university accommodation
  • you have received a level 1 or above disciplinary outcome in relation to Regulation 2 - Student Discipline
  • any action (legal or otherwise) taken in relation to previous licence/tenancy breaches or student discipline including service of a Notice to Terminate
  • there is a risk that the allocation of a housing place would put your potential flat mates at an unacceptable risk of harm to their health and wellbeing. This can include but is not limited to behavioural incidents from a previous tenancy and/or risks of significantly and adversely impacting others
  • based on the evidence available, the University does not consider that it can reasonably put in place the adjustments required to meet your needs
  • we have a reasonable belief that there may be other issues that may impact your ability to manage a tenancy in line with the requirements of the Licence to Occupy.

  
  

  If you apply for accommodation and we become aware of any of these reasons, your application will be considered at the student accommodation panel before it’s withdrawn. We’ll write to you to tell you that this is happening.

  Most people are unaffected by this criteria and won’t have their accommodation offer withdrawn.

How to apply

You’ll be able to register your interest and apply for accommodation in certain residences, designated for returning students only.

Apply now

Staying updated

We’ll send offers of accommodation to successful applicants from January 2025 onwards.

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