<p>Coordinating skills are those that are consciously carried out in the regulation and direction of movements, with a specific purpose, these are developed on the basis of physical abilities of man and in his daily confrontation with the environment. For this reason, the study aimed to determine the relationship between the coordinative abilities and the cognitive abilities of university students at the Faculty of Economic Sciences of the National University of San Martín. Descriptive study with correlational design. For this, the Kiphard and Schilling body coordination test was used as an instrument to measure coordinative abilities and the CogniFit Computerized Assessment Battery or Cognitive Assessment Battery (CAB), to assess cognitive level, both instruments were applied to a sample of 132 students of the first cycle of study of the Professional Academic School of Administration of the National University of San Martín. The results obtained allowed to demonstrate with a confidence level of 95% that there is a statistically significant correlation of 0.768 between the variables analyzed, for which the research hypothesis is verified. In conclusion, the results show a strong positive relationship between coordination skills and cognitive abilities in university students.</p>