E-mail, though, is not necessarily the most important reason for going online, according to the students polled by Student Monitor.
A third of the students polled, aged between 16 and 30, said they were interested in some form of overseas study.
A survey by the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, found that 91percentt of students polled by their organization regularly heard homophobic comments at school.
Three-quarters of the students polled felt they were not being given enough information about how their fees were being spent.
A record 30.2percentt of the students polled in their first days in college said they felt frequently overwhelmed by what they had to do.
The stigma attached to banking is fading: in 2010, 17% of finance students polled felt awkward telling friends they wanted to work in the City, compared with 35% the year before.
The survey by Art & Science Group polled 500 high school seniors who intended to apply to four-year colleges and found that 94percentt of the students had Web access, a leap from 30percentt among students polled four years ago.
A recent study found that 38percentt of the students polled had committed "cut and paste" plagiarism -- that is, copying sentences or even several paragraphs from the Internet and implanting them in their own work.
Of the 17,000 students polled across the UK, 29% of first-year students said their courses were not good value for money, compared to 16% last time the study was carried out in 2006, when fees were just more than £1,000 a year.
"The people I associate with in town are pro-choice, so I'm troubled -- where do these kids come from?" A study of American college freshmen shows that support for abortion rights has been dropping since the early 1990's: 54percentt of 282,549 students polled at 437 schools last fall by the University of California at Los Angeles agreed that abortion should be legal.
The survey, conducted by One Poll on behalf of the Association of University Directors of Estates (Aude), found 90% of students polled thought their university buildings were well looked after.
