In this article, is presented a panorama about the differences in the academic goals that the students of the Faculty of Science and Technology of the University Santo Tomás consider according to their gender. To this end, the academic goals are considered as the reasons that students have to guide their learning, the CEMA academic goal assessment questionnaire designed by T. Hayamizu and B. Weiner (1991) is used and for the analysis of the data the test t-student to determine if there are statistically significant differences.