In 1978, a pilot project was inaugurated for first-year undergraduates in three faculties: Engineering, Political Science, and Commerce and Accountancy. A year later, not only were the teaching services for first-year undergraduates expanded to cover all the fourteen faculties at the time, but also second-year courses were offered for the first time to the undergraduates in the three faculties above who had originally participated in the pilot project. In 1980, the Institute further expanded and extended its services by offering second-year courses to nine faculties, and third- and fourth-year courses to three faculties. Three years later, the very first elective course was offered to the undergraduates in the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Science.