The peculiarities in which university students get along nowadays make necessary for them digital and media competences with a critical and reflexive attitude in front of what they meet and read on the 2.0 web.The competences above mentioned have implicit the development of critical and hypertextual reading habilities which even when they are not directly observed, can be detected and measured. In this sense, this essay has as a goal to show the characteristics of hypertextual critical reading habilities in university students. The methology used a quantitative paradigm non experimental of transversal type. The universe of 1272 students from their last academic year in the University of Sonora is represented by a total token of 293 students. For this research project was used as instrument a questionnaire Likert type which was evaluated as trustable in accordance with Cronbach's Alpha, and validated by factorial analysis.The results show that students make use of critical hypertextual strategies with a promising attitude and with grades from regular to good; in consequence it would be considered desirable that the development of these habilities were exercised since the beginning of their profesional formation so that the grades could be raised from good to excellent.

reading; information analysis; web 2.0; higher education; Mexico