courses in Economy, Law and Psychology Students have to complete 50 credit hours courses within the one-year stipulated time. Upon completion and depending on their CGPA, students can apply to the faculty of their choices. In 2019, the PERMATA programme was rebranded and renamed to Genius as it undergo process to enhanced in terms of quality of the child development programme. History PERMATApintar National Gifted Center, UKM is the first gifted school in Malaysia. Established on 3 April 2009, Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor, planned to have a school for Malaysian gifted students after visiting various countries' gifted schools as early as 2006. To realize her plan, a series of discussions with local and foreign experts took place to come up for a suitable program in Malaysia. The controversy programme was started nearly a decade ago after Najib Razak then took office. However, the previous Barisan Nasional (BN) administration had claimed that Rosmah was not involved in Permata's day-to-day operations. A working paper of PERMATApintar was then approved by the Former Prime Minister of Malaysia, Najib in 2008. The National University of Malaysia was appointed to implement the program with the fund disbursed from the PERMATA Division of the Prime Minister's Department. An agreement was made in Kuala Lumpur in April 2009 with the Johns Hopkins University - Center for Talented Youth to help kick start the program. In January 2010, National University of Malaysia gave a land located at Bukit Puteri to the government to build the PERMATApintar complex. Its first and incumbent director is Prof Datuk Dr Noriah Mohd. Ishak. The construction was divided into two phases. The construction of Phase 1 started in early 2010 and finished at the end of 2010 with the allocation of RM23 million. The second phase was constructed right after the completion of the first phase in February 2011 with an allocation of RM54 million. The second phase was finished in December 2011. The first batch of Level 1 students started their study in PERMATApintar National Gifted Center in January 2011. In 2013, the third phase of the construction started in April 2013 fully funded by the Al-Bukhary Foundation. The construction involved the auditorium and the sports center. The construction was finished in October 2014. In 2014, PERMATApintar started receiving its first batch of Foundation 1 students, aged 12 and 13 years old, who will study in PERMATApintar for five years. In 2015,