Since 1996, the Institute has been authorised to organise doctoral activities. Currently, there are 10 researchers/professors who, as doctoral supervisors, have coordinated the training programs of 153 doctoral students. A total of 91 doctoral degrees have been awarded. The remaining doctoral students are at various stages of training and thesis preparation.

For full-time doctoral students, doctoral courses are taught by four of the certified doctoral supervisors.

As an institution that offers a doctoral programme, the “George Bariţiu” Institute of History of the Romanian Academy, Cluj-Napoca Branch, awards doctorates in history, specialising in the medieval, modern, and contemporary history of Romania, as well as in cultural history.

The Department of Social Sciences and Humanities within the “George Bariţiu” Institute of History of the Romanian Academy, Cluj-Napoca Branch, is, in terms of origin, general orientation and working style, the legitimate successor of some important research units, in which remarkable personalities of Romanian science and culture have carried out their activity.

The Department of Social Sciences and Humanities currently comprises the following departments: psychology, with 11 researchers; sociology, with six researchers; philosophy, with four researchers; law and economics, with four researchers, as well as seven employees with the status of auxiliary research staff. Of the total of 32 people employed, 13 are women, 11 hold the scientific title of doctor in their field, 8 hold the positions of Researcher I and Researcher II, equivalent to those of professor and associate professor, respectively, and 11 are young people under the age of 35.