Transactional descriptive non-experimental study aimed to identify factors associated with suicidal ideation in a sample of 258 college students aged between 18 and 24 years old, belonging to a university located in the Boyaca state; through the Positive and Negative Suicide Ideation Inventory (PANSI), the Zung Self-Rating Depression Scale (SDS), the Barratt Impulsiveness Scale (BIS), Emotional Dependency Questionnaire (CDE), Stressful Life Events Scale (EEVA) and a socio-demographic questionnaire. The analysis results indicate 31 % of the participant population had suicidal ideation, being from the U Mann-Whitney and Kruskal Wallis, the common law marital status, stressful life events, emotional dependency, impulsivity and depression are factors associated with suicidal ideation in college.