This study provides an analysis of the economic impact of Ulster University and its students on the Northern Ireland economy. With over 26,000 students, Ulster University is Northern Ireland's largest university in terms of student numbers. With its headquarters based at the Coleraine Campus, it has three more campuses in Northern Ireland: the Magee Campus, Jordanstown Campus, and Belfast Campus. It also has two additional branch campuses in London and Birmingham. The university has a broad based portfolio of teaching and research across six faculties including art; art, design, and the built environment; computing and engineering; life and health sciences; social sciences and the Ulster Business School. This report's primary aim is to assess the economic impact of the university as a business generating economic activity and contributing to Northern Ireland in terms of the jobs, output, and "Gross Value Added" (GVA) generated in a "snapshot year". The report presents key economic aspects of Ulster University in the academic and financial year ending 2012-13 and its impact on Northern Ireland and on the rest of the United Kingdom. 2012-13 was the most recent year for which the relevant Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) data was available. Major economic characteristics of the university are examined, including its revenue, expenditure, and employment. The study also includes modeled analysis of the economic activity generated in other sectors of the economy through the secondary or "knock-on" effects of the expenditure of the university and its students. This analysis used a two-stage approach to the estimation of the economic impact of the university: (1) The impact of the university on the United Kingdom was modeled, using a purpose-designed economic model of the United Kingdom; (2) A Location Quotient approach was used to estimate the share of institutional impact likely to have accrued to Northern Ireland. The model used was a "Type II" input-output model based on data derived from the United Kingdom Input-Output tables and related Office for National Statistics data. The model had been specifically designed to analyse higher education impact and was updated in 2013 to undertake a United Kingdom-wide study of higher education for Universities UK along with studies of the nine regions of England. This modeling system and analysis framework has also been used for a study of higher education in Wales as well as studies of individual institutions. Institutional income and expenditure data was sourced from HESA and student expenditure data from surveys undertaken for the United Kingdom Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS). The following are appended: (1) Methodology and Data Sources; and (2) References and Bibliography.