The research starts from the objective of demonstrating, whether the application of heuristic strategies strengthens self-regulated learning in students of the National University of Cañete. The research belongs to the applied type and explanatory level, with a pre-experimental design, for the sample, 343 students from the Professional School of Systems Engineering were taken probabilistically. The main results show us that self-regulated learning has improved by 16.17%, then in its components learning to learn by 12.19%, in the domain of specific learning by 18.42%, and in the use of computer resources 17.90%. Then, it is concluded with the Wilcoxon test with a p-value: (0.000 <0.050) considers that the application of heuristic strategies has favorably and significantly strengthened the self-regulated learning of the students of the National University of Cañete.