 On 16 July 2009, Sultan Azlan Shah officiated the opening of the KISDAR campus at Bukit Chandan which is, since 2013, known as KUISAS.On 10 June 2016, Prime Minister Najib Razak announced the status of university to KUISAS and, hence, renamed KUISAS as USAS.Minister of Higher Education Idris Jusoh presented the Instrument of Establishment to USAS on 14 June.