To investigate the effects of university students\' epistemological beliefs on their self-regulated learning strategies, translated versions of Schommer\'s \"epistemological Beliefs Questionnare\" and \"Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire\" (MSLQ) were administered to the 594 students drawn from 14 courses in three universities. Through a series of exploratory factor analyses of the data the construct epistemological beliefs was validated as being composed of 5 factors including \'knowledge of simple structure\', \'certain and invariant knowledge\', \'dependable authority\' \'quick learning\" and \'innate learning ability\', and the
self-regulated learning strategies construct as containing 6 motivational, 4 cognitive and 3 behavioral factors.
A series of stepwise regressions on motivational, cognitive and behavioral self-regulated learning strategy variables with the five epistemological beliefs as predictors have shown that the less the students hold beliefs in \"simple knowledge\", \"quick learning\" and \"\"innate learning ability\", the more they use highly motivational strategies, efficient cognitive strategies and productive behavior strategies. All these results imply the need to take account of the roles of epistemological beliefs for fostering the university students\' self-regulated learning.