The purpose of the research was to determine the incidence of factors associated with the development of research skills in graduate students from public and private universities. A quantitative, basic-substantive, explanatory level methodology was used; the indeterminate population allowed the establishment of a stratified random sample of 384 master's and doctoral students. Multivariate logistic regression was used as a statistic. The results indicated a moderate incidence of 44.4%, according to Nagelkerke's pseudosquare of, 444, and, according to parameter (Wald) estimates, both variables influence the appropriate level.