Centre for Quality Assurance (CQA) was formed in 2013 under the supervision of the first Director, Professor Datin Dr. Napsiah Ismail to oversee, manage, facilitate, monitor and report on the development of academic programmes and enhance the roles of supporting departments towards ensuring high quality delivery of education in UCTS, which now known as UTS. She was succeeded by Professor Dr. Salfarina Abdul Gapor in 2018 until Assoc. Professor Dr. Rabuan took over the directorship of CQA in 2019. In the mid of 2023, Dr. Sim Siew Ling was appointed as a new Director of CQA and continued with the tradition.

UTS academic programmes have been developed in close collaboration with the industries and based on industrial needs. Initially, UTS started with four schools and offered only six academic programmes, two at foundation levels and four at undergraduate levels. There are Foundation in Art and Foundation in Science under the School of Foundation Studies. The School of Business and Management offered Bachelor of Business Administration and Bachelor of Accountancy, while the School of Engineering and Technology offered Bachelor of Engineering Technology in Electrical and Electronic and Civil Engineering. The School of Built Environment initially only offered Bachelor of Quantity Surveying.
 
In 2014, more Bachelor programmes were offered including Architecture, Network Computing, Software Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. In 2015, Electrical Engineering and Food Technology were offered.
 
The School of Postgraduate Studies was formed in 2016, marking a huge milestone for UTS, whereby five postgraduate programmes were introduced, two at PhD level by research and two at Master level by research, which both are under Business Management and Engineering. Master of Business Administration was offered through coursework in 2016. In 2018, two more Master by coursework were offered – Master of Project Management and Master of Architecture. In 2019, two more Research programmes were offered – Master of Science in Applied Sciences and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Applied Sciences.
 
In 2020, School of Computing and Creative Media introduced two programmes at postgraduate level which are Master and PhD in Computing as well as two programmes at undergraduate level – Bachelor of Arts in Industrial Design and Bachelor of Arts in Creative Media. On the quarter fourth of year 2021, School of Built Environment introduced Bachelor of Arts in Interior Design.
 
From February 2022 to November 2022, School of Built Environment introduced 6 new programmes including Bachelor of Science in Property and Construction Management, PhD in Construction Management, Master of Science in Architecture, Master of Construction Management, PhD in Architecture and Master of Science in Construction Management. School of Computing and Creative Media also introduced Bachelor of Mobile Game Development in November 2022.
 
The latest programme (Bachelor of Science in Occupational Safety and Health) was introduced in January 2024 by School of Engineering and Technology. There are four new programmes that will be introduced in the future.