The establishment of quality assurance office at Universitas Gadjah Mada in 2001 was preceded by activities related to improvement of learning quality, including Teaching Improvement Workshop (TIW) 2001 in Faculty of Engineering, Akta-5, Applied Aproach, and PEKERTI. In addition, UGM is an active member of ASEAN University Network on Higher Education for Quality Assurance (AUN-QA) since 1999, having cooperation with AUN-QA and European Community in AUN Program, as well as Quality for Undergraduate Education Project (QUE-Project, 1998-2005).
Currently, the Office conducts planning and quality assurance system, education monitoring as well as quality assurance in research and community service.