Twelve doctoral programs of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities have been approved to participate in Project 89.

On January 18, 2019, the Prime Minister issued Decision No. 89/QD-TTg approving the Project on enhancing the capacity of lecturers and management staff of higher education institutions to meet the requirements of fundamental and comprehensive reform of education and training in the period 2019-2030 (Project 89).

According to Project 89, the specific goal is to train approximately 10% of university lecturers to doctoral level, ensuring quality and a reasonable structure, with 7% of lecturers trained full-time abroad; 3% trained domestically and through collaboration between Vietnamese universities and foreign universities; and striving for 80% of lecturers in universities in the fields of culture, arts, and physical education and sports to have a master's degree or higher, trained full-time abroad and domestically to meet regional and global quality standards, with a reasonable structure.

According to calculations by the Ministry of Education and Training, to achieve the objectives of the project, it is projected that in the next 10 years, approximately 7,300 lecturers with doctoral degrees and over 300 lecturers in the fields of culture, arts, and physical education and sports with master's degrees will need to be trained.