Objective: Identify the levels of emotional intelligence possessed by students of a Bachelor ofNutrition degree at a university in southeastern Mexico.Materials and methods: According to reviewed documental sources this is a quantitative study,with a descriptive non-experimental approach. In this research, a validated Salovery and MeyerTMMS-24, adapted to Spanish, was applied; this instrument consists of 24 items, subdivided intothree subscales or dimensions of the Likert type made up of five items. The sampling was nonprobabilistic,including 172 university students, who accepted the terms of the informed consent. Fordata analysis, the SPSS v.25 program was executed to assembly the information obtained throughdescriptive statistics (frequency, mean, median and percentage) and variability measures (range,standard deviation and variance). A t-Student test was performed for the analysis of means accordingto the levels, with a p value <0.005 to determine statistically significant differences.Results: 52.91% of the students are located at a level of “adequate attention”, but 47.1% mustimprove. In relation to the level of understanding, 43.60% have adequate clarity in this sphere ofemotional intelligence, while 56.60% must improve this component and 52.33% have adequateregulation, while 47.67% must improve. No statistically significant differences were found; as wellas there were no differences in the means between both genders (p = ≥0.05).Conclusions: The study population showed an adequate management level of their emotionalintelligence, being emotional perception the one that is presented more frequently as adequate,however, the clarity of feelings presents the lowest levels, so It is evident the need to carry outintervention programs in university students to promote further development of the dimensions thatmake up emotional intelligence.Keywords: Emotional intelligence; Students; Nutrition; University.