Saturday, April 17, 2021. Universitas PGRI Madiun received an award for receiving a grant for Curriculum Cooperation and Implementation of the Free Learning Campus Merdeka (KSKI-MBKM) in 2021. Through a program offer from the Ministry of Education and Culture, the Directorate General of Higher Education (Kemendikbud RI), UNIPMA passed the most national.

On Friday, April 15, 2021, the Ministry of Education and Culture of the Republic of Indonesia announced that the applicants who passed were funded. The 10 study programs that pass the program are Guidance and Counseling, Management, Accounting Education, Indonesian Language and Literature Education, Economic Education, Early Childhood Teacher Education, Primary School Teacher Education, Mathematics Education, Pancasila and Citizenship Education, and Electrical Engineering Education.

UNIPMA Vice Rector 1, Dr. Dwi Setiyadi, MM. said the representatives of the proposing team from the 10 study programs who passed the program would then follow the technical guidance (Bimtek) of the Curriculum Cooperation Assistance Program and the Implementation of Free Learning-Free Campus that was held by the Ministry of Education and Culture of the Republic of Indonesia and the task of the campus was to coordinate the implementation and elements of the curriculum. and Competitive, there are a lot of achievements of students, lecturers, as well as achievements of the campus itself at regional, national and international levels that will bring the name of higher education to the goodness ", he added.