The UPPA is led by the Executive Committee which is composed of the three officers and the six committee heads. The officers who exercise general supervision are the President, the Vice President for External Affairs, and the Vice President for Internal Affairs. The committee heads who respectively lead the six committees are the Secretariat, the Finance Committee, the Academic Affairs Committee, the Membership Committee, the Projects Committee, and the Public Affairs Committee.
The elections are done annually and all members are allowed to vote. The UPPA also has a junior faculty adviser and a senior faculty adviser who both help and guide the students and align the activities of the organization with the National Institute of Physics. The faculty advisers are selected by the Executive Committee from the teaching faculty of the institute.