More than 80 per cent of students at the University of Sussex admitted to having taken drugs, a new study has found.

Four out of every five students at the university said that they had taken drugs while at the university.

The figures put the university above the national average for the country where around three quarters of students in the UK said that they had taken drugs.

A study of students conducted by The Tab found that 82 per cent of people studying at the University of Sussex said that they had taken drugs during their time at the institution.

The figure was the seventh highest of all the universities studied and the third highest in the South of England.

In the UK, around 76 per cent of students in the country admitted to having taken drugs during their time at university.

Of those, 18 per cent of students said they were addicted to drugs.

The study comes after the University of Sussex was found to have the least students addicted to vaping in the country.

In the same study, just 35 per cent of Sussex students said they were addicted to vaping.

The study of students took responses from more than 6,000 people nationally.