Currently, annual enrollment is 800 students and to date the university has trained more than 25,000 engineers, representing most branches of engineering and technology. There are 50 postgraduate students every year on two-year programs. HPU also undertakes other forms of further training and continuing education for postgraduate engineers with an aim to give them the latest know-how, consolidate their basic and primary knowledge, as well as acquaint trainers with research methods on profound professional matters. Most of the facilities of the University which were provided by the Soviet Union in 1965 are now quite out of date. Some donor agencies have assisted the institution, for example a Dutch donation of some equipment for the solid physics and automatic control areas five years ago.
Some French assistance is provided for postgraduate training.
There has been too much theory and too little practice and students rarely have access to modern industry. Access to updated information on international scientific and technical development also hinders both students and teachers, and there is lack of reference books, documents and facilities. Professor Hoang feels confident that his graduate engineers still can meet the production demand in Vietnam. It is, however, urgent for them to be further trained in business management and scientific and technical development to meet the requirement of a market-oriented economy in the future. As the other departments, it is short of documents and facilities.