From an integrating perspective, at the Catholic University of the East (UCO) in the municipality of Rionegro, quality is ensured in the education of students in the different programs not only from the academic component but from a more humane perspective; It is for this reason that from the Faculty of Social Sciences and in particular from the Psychology Program, and the interest of several students attached to said faculty to contribute from their profession to research processes, the concern arises to inquire about cognitive profiles and of personality in undergraduate students of said institution. To this end, a project was formulated that aims to describe the psychological profile of UCO undergraduate program students. Which is based on an empirical analytical, descriptive and correlational approach, with a non-experimental, longitudinal cut, the data is being collected in three moments, at the beginning of the training process (First phase), a second evaluation in the 4th or 5th semesters, depending on the semester number of the membership program (second phase) and a last evaluation in the 8th or 10th semesters, at the time of graduation, of the same participants. The present article emerges as one of the products of this study, where some conceptions about the cognitive profile and personality profile, its incidence in the academic process and the scientific evidence related to the research topic are collected. The study allowed to investigate the available empirical evidence on the chosen variables: cognitive profile and personality profile, in the university population, as well as other variables that were identified in the search for research background, such as the relationship of these variables with gender of the students. The main sources of information that were taken for this article were some scientific investigations whose results were published in journals indexed in databases such as ProQuest, Redalyc, Dialnet, Scielo, among others and dated from 2005 to 2018, using the search strategy. bibliographic of different databases or repositories. Articles from study results containing the following categories were selected: Cognitive Profile: including Irrational Beliefs, Coping Strategies, Early Maladaptive Schemes, and Automatic Thoughts; and Personality Profile, with an emphasis on Millon's theory. For the organization of the information, a working instrument called “article grid” was chosen, designed by the researchers, in order to order the information, found and the Bibliographic File Critical version provided by the UCO Psychology Program.