The Co-operative Childcare won the tender to manage the university's nursery and pre-school, which provides a total of 66 places and currently operates within two separate buildings, from November.
The nursery and pre-school, both rated as outstanding by Ofsted, are only open to children of university staff and students.
In 2010, Sussex University announced plans to close their nursery and pre-school, because of costs of £350,000 a year to run the subsidised settings. In order to continue to provide childcare provision, a decision was made to find an external provider to run the settings.
A larger combined pre-school and nursery is currently being built for next September, which will replace the existing settings.
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