The mission of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities is to build an advanced research university, which is Vietnam's leading center for training and scientific research in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities. Therefore, the university's scientific research has been strongly invested in and has developed in both quality and quantity over the past years. The University determines that scientific research works towards the creation of high-quality scientific products, enhances international integration, and gradually develops the University in the direction of a research university.
The scientific staff of the University has presided over and implemented many scientific topics at all levels; Many experts are assigned the task manager of a component under the major scientific programs of the State. The university's research works have contributed to consolidating the basic theoretical system on the road to socialism in Vietnam; building, developing and preserving Vietnamese culture; on the strategy of national defense and international integration; promoting democracy, building the political system, building the Socialist State of Vietnam; building and regulating the Party, ... Over the past 5 years, the school's staff have published 1895 articles in specialized magazines in the country, 78 monographs in Vietnamese, and 07 books published in the language.