Education Minister Dan Tehan made his third visit to the Border in three months on Monday, taking a tour of the joint Charles Sturt University and Goulburn Ovens TAFE facility in the city before making the announcement.

The first 16 regional study hubs were announced by Mr Tehan back in November, with the North East missing out, but he has now made an election promise to add Wangaratta to the list.

The Coalition would conducted an open tender process before choosing a location for the hub, looking for the proposal that would give students the most options for university study.

"We want to make sure that we maximise the amount of courses that will be offered through our regional study hubs," Mr Tehan said.

"The types of courses we would like offered is where there are already gaps.

"We leave that up to the universities as to what they think should be offered."

The Wangaratta Regional Study Centre already has a head start to be the location of the study hub, after the minister toured the facility yesterday with Coalition candidates Steve Martin and Mark Byatt.

"That would give an advantage to Charles Sturt University in them putting forward their tender," Mr Tehan said.

"You can get multiple universities looking to provide courses into regional and rural areas ... You could potentially have three or four different universities providing courses here in Wangaratta."

He said he chose to add Wangaratta to the list of study hubs after visiting Cathedral College in February, where students told him they wanted to see more opportunities to attend university close to home.

"It means they can stay here with their families, get work locally," he said.

Mr Tehan denied his multiple visits to the Border recently were a sign the Coalition was worried about tight election contests in Indi and Farrer.

"What it is a sign of is that we as the government have the education services in regional and rural communities," he said.

"We are focused as a government and as the Coalition on ensuring we win as many seats as we possibly can at the next election."

The Liberal minister was flanked by both Indi's Liberal and National candidates, but in a slip of the tongue, he accidentally referred to Mr Byatt as "Matt" instead of "Mark" when introducing him to speak.

Mr Byatt quickly moved on and welcomed the news of more educational pathways.

"This is good news for our region, it's good news for the providers of the education themselves where we'll see a lot more collaboration," he said.

Mr Martin said removing barriers to education was at the top of his priority list for Indi.

"It's great news that this is going to happen right here in Wangaratta if the Morrison government is elected," he said.

"This program is all about taking the barriers away from regional and rural people to be able to get that tertiary level education."

Wangaratta Regional Study Centre manager Ilena Young said it was very likely the facility would submit a tender to be the home of the study hub, saying it would make "a tremendous difference" to North East students.

"If we had this funding, then we could offer more face-to-face courses," she said.

"It would enable us to form more partnerships with different universities in order to bring down different courses in this part of the world so our young people didn't have to go off to Melbourne or Sydney or elsewhere to do courses, they could actually stay here."

Just 22 per cent of regional year 12 students go on to study at university, compared to 44 per cent in the cities, and Ms Young said even then, the pressure of needing to work while studying - to be able to afford living out of home - created pressure that sometimes led to students dropping out.

"Many students do actually want to stay near home to study," she said.

"They have the support of family, they have lesser costs.

"What they find really challenging is that they want to follow a passion, but they can't do that in the regional areas."

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