Contents 1 Summary 3 Findings 4 RUN member universities contribute $1.7 billion to real GDP in their regions 4 The overall contribution to GDP is driven by three main effects: jobs and productivity, spending and knowledge effects of RUN universities 4 Method 5 RUN universities bring higher education and research to Australia's regional areas 5 This study robustly quantifies the economic contribution RUN universities make through education and research in regional Australia 5 We model RUN's

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... mic contribution through spending, jobs and research in each region and simulating a "what-if" case for closing each campus 6 We focus on economic contributions from RUN's nominated regional campuses 7 A CGE model was selected as fit for purpose for this study 8 Glossary 9 Terms Abbreviation Computable General Equilibrium CGE Regional Universities Network RUN Full-time equivalent FTE Vocational Education and Training VET