The Bureau of Research, Community Service, and Partnership is one of the administrative units at the university level subordinate to the vice-rector III. Following the Regulation of the Rector of Universitas Sumatera Utara Number 52 of 2017, the Bureau of Research, Community Service, and Partnership has the main tasks including planning and guiding university research to advance science, technology, and art to raise the brand of USU, developing management in the research implementation unit, improving relevance, sustainability, efficiency, and accountability, and evaluating the annual report to the rector.