The Uganda Martyrs University’s DGSRE was began in 2000 with two Programmes, namely, Master of Development Studies and Master of Business Administration. Later, in 2003, the School of Postgraduate Studies was established, with the mandate to oversee postgraduate studies at the university, which had by that time, grown from two to four programmes. Prof. Deirdre Carabine was appointed and she became the first -founding Director of the school. . In August 2015, the School of Postgraduate Studies was merged with the Directorate of Research and it became the School of Postgraduate Studies and Research (SPGSR), with the mandate to oversee Postgraduate Studies, Research and Publications. This mandate was implemented in collaboration with the Faculties of Education, Business Administration and Management, Agriculture, Built Environment, Science, and Health Science and, Mother Kevin Post Graduate Medical School, School of Arts and Social Sciences and, the Institutes of, Ethics, languages and Communication Studies. In 2022 however, the UMU restructured and turned SPGSR into the its current, Directorate of Graduate Studies, Research and Enterprise