[2] Universitas is publicly funded through the fiscal budget, and is partly paid for by the students' semester fee.

In the early years, Universitas had an editorial council, where professor names like Arne Næss and Ragnar Frisch figured.

In more recent years, many profiles from Norwegian media has started their careers in the newspaper, including Øystein Sørensen, Kjetil Rolness, Ivar Hippe and Tor Edvin Dahl.

Many illustrators also began drawing for Universitas: Ellen Auensen, Christopher Nielsen, Mikael Holmberg, Ola A. Hegdal and Karine Haaland.

The newspaper's location is in Moltke Moes vei at Blindern, the main campus of the University of Oslo.