The paper presents the survey results of the situation of scientific research skills of non-public lecturers in Ho Chi Minh City. According to the results, lecturers self-evaluated their scientific research skills as quite high
however, the interest in scientific research only reaches an average level. Among nine scientific research skills of lecturers, there is only one good skill which is the skill of writing scientific research outline. The number of topics for researching is not really large, which leads to the limitation of scientific research skills of non-public university lecturers.