The poll, part of a report by the British Future thinktank and Universities UK, the body representing universities, also found that only 22% of people regard foreign students coming to the UK to study as immigrants.
Groups representing universities and students said the episode represented infringements on academic freedom.
Its Overland Park, Kan., office is well known in the college sports world for representing universities that are facing N.C.A.A. investigations.
Universities Australia, a peak body representing universities, had called for senators to support deregulation of fees but suggested the government's concessions were "insufficient".
Like a rock'n'roll supergroup of science, the newly formed Research Alliance draws together peak bodies representing universities, medical research institutes, science, engineering, humanities and education.
"Fairleigh Dickinson is Exhibit A in what seems to be a fairly significant problem schools are having," said Terry Hartle, a lobbyist here for the American Council on Education, which represents universities.
The Universities council for the education of teachers (UCET), which represents universities providing teacher training, said it had no problem with a review but called for "no pre-conceptions" over which was the best route into teaching.
Sheldon E. Steinbach, vice president and general counsel for the American Council on Education, a trade group that represents universities and other educational institutions, called the ruling "magnificent" but said he was not surprised by it because of the labor board's changed lineup.
Of that, £1bn of that is spent by students, according to the report commissioned by Higher Education Wales, the body which represents universities.
