The purpose of the study focused on determining the level of internet addiction in university students and whether this differs by gender. Participants were 463 students who, at the time of applying the survey, were taking any of the school semesters in the different academic offerings at ITSON. The instrument used for the field work was Young's IAT scale (1998) and the statistical procedure for the measurement of data that allowed identifying the variance of the study phenomenon was exploratory factor analysis with Polychoric correlation matrices and ANOVA for gender difference contrast. The main findings point to the identification of a factorial structure of four factors that explain 50.35 % of the variance, in addition the highest percentage of cases that measure the level of internet addiction, was in the mild and moderate range. Finally, it was shown that there is no gender difference in addiction. The authors can point out that, because the participants were university students, this can be beneficial, since the institution where these young people study has the power to generate strategies aimed at preventing internet addiction. As an example of this, general training courses can include activities to develop a culture of proper use of the internet, taking advantage of the resource without making excessive use of it. Implementing strategies to prevent addiction, as well as programs to recover from an internet addiction, in themselves are projects that can be developed by the students themselves with the guidance of professionals on the subject.