Resumen:
The objective of the investigation was: To determine the effect of the application of the university investigation program to improve the investigation capacities in the students of cycle VIII, IX and X of the different faculties of the National University of San MartínTarapoto. From this perspective, it has been hypothesized that the application of a university research program produces significant effects in the improvement of research capacities in students of cycle VIII, IX and X of the various faculties of the National University of San Martín-Tarapoto. The explanatory study, of the experimental level, of the quasi-experimental design, has been carried out with a sample of 187 students from the various faculties of the UNSM-T. The comparison of the pre and post test scores, obtained from the students' responses, has allowed us to reject the null hypothesis and accept the alternative hypothesis, which shows that: The application of the university's research program significantly influences the improvement of research capacities, dimensions: Epistemological, methodological and transformational criticism of the students of the different faculties of the National University of San Martín-Tarapoto.