Corporate governance has been identified as a result of a context in which organizations seek to maximize benefits from their image in relation to the parties that make them up. The objective of this work, considering the university environment, was to compare the theoretical structure of governance with a series of empirical observations. A cross-sectional, psychometric, confirmatory and correlational study was carried out with a sample of 100 students from a public university in central Mexico. Six of the 10 dimensions that explained between 16% and 86% of the variance related to corporate governance are confirmed. The incidence of other indicator factors that would increase the percentage of variance is recognized. It is recommended that the study and the sample be extended to confirm the structure.