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Over more than half a century, the History Department's training program, which started as a 3-year program, then expanded to 4 years, then 4.5 years, and then reverted to 4 years, has trained nearly 8,000 bachelors, almost 1,000 masters, and over 200 doctoral graduates. Graduates from the History Department are present throughout the country, holding positions in many fields. In any role, the History Department's bachelors, masters, and doctoral graduates demonstrate strong abilities and qualities, excelling in their duties. Many have held and continue to hold key positions at the central and local levels, in Party and government agencies, and in training and scientific research institutions.

Typical extracurricular activity directions

• 15-day archaeological internship: first-year students.
• Fieldwork at historical and cultural sites and traditional craft villages: first-year to third-year students.
• Graduation internship: fourth-year students.
• Studying science at museums: Anthropology Museum of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, National History Museum, Museum of Ethnology, Military History Museum, Fine Arts Museum…
• Activities of youth organizations, associations, and hobby clubs.

Job positions that can be taken after graduation

Graduates from the Faculty of History will become historians, archaeologists, researchers, and cultural managers… capable of undertaking research work at institutes, research centers, state agencies, and social organizations with expertise directly related to historical and cultural knowledge; teaching history and cultural studies at universities, colleges, and high schools; managing historical documents, museums, and historical sites; working in history and culture in state agencies and social organizations; and other jobs related to various issues in the social sciences and humanities.

Types of agencies, organizations, and businesses that offer suitable job opportunities.

• Academies, universities, and colleges have programs for teaching and researching history and culture, especially those with courses on the History of the Communist Party of Vietnam and the Revolutionary Line of the Communist Party of Vietnam.
• Research institutes under the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences (Institute of History, Institute of Archaeology, Institute of Chinese Studies, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Institute of Northeast Asian Studies, Institute of American Studies, Institute of European Studies, Institute of South Asia, West Asia and Africa Studies, Institute of Ethnology, Institute of Cultural Studies, Institute of Imperial City Studies, etc.), Vietnam Military History Institute, Institute of Party History, Institute of Heritage Conservation, etc.
• Party, State, and mass organizations that utilize historical knowledge (central agencies of the political system, press agencies, People's Committees at all levels, museums, historical and cultural research centers, historical site management units, publishing houses, specialized history and culture journals, etc.).
• Middle schools, high schools, and elementary schools.
• Research units at the central and local levels.
• Archives, libraries, museums.
• Newspapers, magazines, radio and television.
• He has held various positions in central agencies (Party and Government agencies, ministries, departments, and branches), and departments and agencies at the local level.