University of Edinburgh
contributes
£3,300 million
to the UK economy.
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Contributes
£1,420 million
to the local economy.
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This is part of the estimated
£2,000 million
contributed by higher education to the city of Edinburgh.
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It directly employs 10,480 people.
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But it actually creates 21,306 local jobs.
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And in total it generates 37,000 UK jobs.
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There are 34,275 students.
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It's behind 54 graduate start-up businesses.
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It also supports 3,947 other organisations through knowledge exchange.
£2,000 million
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UK parliamentary constituency for University of Edinburgh:
Edinburgh East
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Note: all employment figures presented are Full-Time Equivalents. This means that part-time workers are counted pro-rata based on the proportion of full-time hours that they work. This enables a common currency to be established, which adjusts for working hours of staff across universities as well as of other workers.