BA English
About this course
BA (Hons) in English, exploring literary texts across diverse cultures and historical periods. Core topics include Research Methods. The course concludes with an independent English Literature Dissertation.
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Entry requirements
A level: BBB IB: 32 points
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What students say
Based on about 30 final-year students who answered
- Teaching on my course: 94%
- Learning opportunities: 81%
- Assessment and feedback: 84%
- Academic support: 94%
- Organisation and management: 90%
- Learning resources: 89%
- Student voice: 74%
Do students stay on the course?
Based on about 40 students who started
- Continued on course: 100%
- Left higher education: 5%
Where graduates work (5 years on)
Based on about 185 graduates, across similar courses at this university
- North West: 1%
- East Midlands: 1%
- West Midlands: 2%
- East of England: 10%
- London: 44%
- South East: 36%
- South West: 3%
- Scotland: 2%
Who gets in
Based on about 35 students who started
- A levels: 95%
- Other qualifications: 5%
Accreditation & quality ratings
TEF 2023 (whole university): Silver overall, Bronze for student experience, Silver for student outcomes.
Modules
- Burning to Read
- Critical Approaches
- Radical Theory
- World Making
- Language for Life
- Liberty and Horror
- Global Modernisms
- In the Embers of Empire: Reading Postcolonial Texts Today
- Literature and Philosophy
- Novels (how to read them and why)
- The Art of Short Fiction
- Word & Image
- (Re)thinking Civilization
- Life Story
- Queer Brighton and Sussex: Histories, Heritage, and Aesthetics
- Right Here! Right Now! Twenty-First Century Literature and Culture
- Romance
- Sexuality and the Rise of Fiction
- Staging the Renaissance: Shakespeare
- Writing Poetry
- English Literature Dissertation
- Posthuman/Premodern
- Psychoanalysis and Literature
- Serial Fictions
- Topics in African American Literature
- Virginia Woolf
- Wollstonecraft and After: Gender, Writing and the Public Sphere
- Writing Race, Gender, and the Social: Experiments Beyond Representation
- Championing Literacy Placement
- Decolonial Literature, Politics, Writing
- Gender, Race and Society in Early Modern Drama
- Modern Nature
- Queer Fictions
- Sussex Modernism
Questions about this course
How much do graduates of BA English at University of Sussex earn?
The median salary is £23,000 after 3 years, £29,000 after 5 years. After five years the middle half of graduates earn between £24,000 and £35,000. The £29,000 median after five years is the same as the UK median for English studies.
Are students happy with the teaching on BA English at University of Sussex?
94% of final-year students were positive about the teaching in the National Student Survey 2025-26.
What grades do I need for BA English at University of Sussex?
The typical offer is BBB at A level, or 32 points in the IB. The average entrant had 119 UCAS points.
Does BA English at University of Sussex include a placement year or year abroad?
The course has an optional placement year and an optional year abroad.
How many students continue on BA English at University of Sussex?
100% of students continued into their second year, and 5% left higher education.