The purpose of this study is to seek increasing the basic academic skills of university students by analyzing the reading errors of university students. The reading skill of 60 freshmen and 60 seniors in N University in Gwangju was measured. The type of reading error was divided into learning error (substitution, omission), speech error (self-error correction, addition), proficiency error (repetition) per academic year, gender and department for analysis. The most frequent error among the reading errors of university students was the learning error (substitution, omission) and female students showed more reading errors than male students, and especially there were a lot of substitution errors. In case of academic year, freshmen showed more errors than seniors, and in case of department, more errors were shown in order of department of art, music and physical education, department of science and department of humanities. The analysis result of reading errors of university students shows that in case of substitution, errors were shown in foreign words, tense and classification between subjective cases and possessive cases, and in case of omission, errors were shown in the omission of postposition, low frequency words and omission of some syllables from a long sentence or word. Also, in case of self-error correction, errors were shown in the first phase of the paragraph or low frequency words, and in case of addition and repetition, errors to add postposition or add a tense ending were shown.