The University of Sussex has risen in national rankings from 26th to 19th this year.

The university benefited from good student satisfaction scores, spending on academic services such as IT and libraries and student facilities, including sports centres and other venues.

Brighton University was ranked 73 out of 115 universities.

University of Sussex Vice-Chancellor, Professor Michael Farthing, welcomed the latest ranking, saying: "I believe this climb up the table reflects the work that we started three years ago to improve the student experience in the round - work that is clearly making a difference.

"Our success also reflects on the positive effect of new schemes such as Sussex Plus, which will enable our graduates to demonstrate what they have achieved in all of their academic and extra-curricular activities at Sussex.

"Current developments, including a major new teaching building opening in the summer, a radically overhauled library, a new creative arts centre for 2011 and more placement opportunities for our students, will further enhance the experience for future generations of students at Sussex."

The list in full

1 Oxford

2 Cambridge

3 Imperial College London

4 Durham

5 London School of Economics

6 St Andrews

7 Warwick

8 Lancaster

9 University College London

10 York

11 Edinburgh

12 Bath

13 King's College London

14 Southampton

15 School of Oriental and African Studies

16 Bristol

17 Aston

18 Nottingham

19 Sussex

20 Buckingham

21 Leicester

22 Birmingham

23 Exeter

24 Loughborough

25 Sheffield

26 Glasgow

27 Leeds

28 East Anglia

29 Newcastle

30 Royal Holloway

31 Manchester

32 Liverpool

33 Surrey

34 Heriot-Watt

35 Strathclyde

35 Queen's, Belfast

37 Essex

38 Kent

39 Queen Mary

40 Reading

41 Hertfordshire

42 Cardiff

43 Keele

44 Aberdeen

45 Dundee

46 Brunel

47 City

47 Aberystwyth

49 Nottingham Trent

50 Oxford Brookes

51 Robert Gordon

52 Stirling

53 Chichester

54 Ulster

55 Bournemouth

56 Hull

57 Goldsmiths College

58 Birmingham City

59 University of Wales Institute, Cardiff

60 Swansea

61 Bradford

62 Gloucestershire

63 Bangor

64 Northumbria

65 Plymouth

65 De Montfort

67 Huddersfield

68 Sheffield Hallam

68 University of the West of England, Bristol

70 University of the Arts, London

71 Lincoln

72 Central Lancashire

73 Brighton

74 Edinburgh Napier

75 Coventry

76 Winchester

77 Queen Margaret

78 York St John

79 Glasgow Caledonian

80 Staffordshire

81 Chester

81 Cumbria

83 Bath Spa

84 Kingston

85 Leeds Metropolitan

86 Glamorgan

87 Roehampton

88 Edge Hill

89 Manchester Metropolitan

89 University of Wales, Newport

89 Portsmouth

92 Glyndwr

93 Sunderland

94 Westminster

95 Thames Valley

96 Salford

97 Middlesex

98 Abertay, Dundee

99 Lampeter

100 Northampton

101 Bedfordshire

102 Liverpool John Moores

102 Worcester

104 Derby

105 Teesside

106 Anglia Ruskin

106 Canterbury Christ Church

108 Buckinghamshire New

109 University for the Creative Arts

110 Greenwich

111 Southampton Solent

112 Bolton

113 East London

114 London South Bank

115 London Metropolitan