In the year, Centre for Graduate Studies (CGS) was known as Postgraduate and Research Program Unit which was formed on 1st April 2003 to conduct and develop the graduate studies programs and at the same time managed research activities through short term research grants.

This unit was then divided into Postgraduate Unit and Research and Development Unit (R&D) where Postgraduate Unit focused only in offering courses and the intake of postgraduate students.  After 6 years, the Postgraduate Unit was upgraded to Centre for Graduate Studies on the January , 1st 200 with a bigger and more important role towards increasing the amount of postgraduate and ensuring the quality of postgraduate studies in UniMAP.