Plumpton College is a specialist land based college in Plumpton, East Sussex. The College provides a wide range of full time and part time courses for Further and Higher Education students, Employers and Business and for schoolchildren. The College degree courses are provided in association with the University of Brighton. The main site of the College can be found in Plumpton with out-centres at Netherfield, Flimwell and Stanmer Park (Brighton). Plumpton is a member of Landex.

All staff participate in scholarly activity in order to keep up to date in their subject areas and to stay at the forefront of high quality teaching and learning within their relevant land based sector. At departmental level there are programmes of trials-based research, undertaken by both staff and students. This work helps to maintain the existing links with local and regional industry through consultancy and joint projects with land based businesses.

The range of research and scholarly activity covers all land-based provision including Agriculture, Horticulture, Floristry, Greenkeeping, Hard Landscaping, Equine, Agricultural and Horticultural Machinery, Metalsmithing, Animal Care and Veterinary Nursing, Countryside Management, Forestry and Arboriculture, Sports (Outdoor Education) and Wine and Viticulture.