It has around 1,400 academic employees (of which over 150 are professors/research professors, the top rank in Norway), around 20,000 students and around 800 administrative support staff.

Most of the university is located in the city centre of Oslo along the Pilestredet street, with subsidiary campuses in Kjeller in Akershus.

This involved broadening their scope to include more traditionally academic disciplines and placing increased emphasis on research and education at master's and PhD levels, as well as increasingly favouring recruitment at the associate professor level or higher.

[5] Some newspapers such as Morgenbladet announced that they would write the name in accordance with Norwegian spelling rules as Oslomet.

[7] On 18 January 2018 the state Language Council of Norway determined that the correct spelling of the university's Norwegian name, which is mandatory in official government usage, is Oslomet – storbyuniversitetet.

A branding document published on the university's website and aimed at its employees claims the institution should be referred to as "OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University;"[10] however the Language Council rejected several of the key claims in the document[11] and the document was subject to ridicule in the Dagsnytt Atten news magazine of the state broadcaster NRK, in which the management at Oslo Metropolitan University refused to participate.

Curt Rice, an American linguist who was formerly a professor at the University of Tromsø, became rector on August 1, 2015.