The objective of this research was to identify the added labor value and the university linkage of the productive sector of the Horticultural Engineer educational program of the Faculty of Agrotechnological Sciences of the Autonomous University of Chihuahua, Mexico, through professional practices. The study allowed showing the added labor value, problematizing if the productive sector knows the competences of the degree and the university connection. The research consisted of a non-experimental study through a quantitative-descriptive approach for a group of 86 students within the academic period January-December 2018-2019, in the framework of the subject of professional practices and 20 surveys of companies that accepted practitioners in that same cycle. The survey consisted of a total of 18 questions, segmented into four categories for analysis: 1) general data on the organization, 2) academic training (knowledge, skills and values), 3) value added labor performance-academic and 4) university link with the productive sector.