The survey findings, from social mobility charity The Sutton Trust, have been released to coincide with the publication of today's A-level results.
Those from low-income families are among the most likely to want to shun university, with 83 per cent of those from affluent families saying they were likely to go to university compared with just 67 per cent among those from poor backgrounds.
Meanwhile among all young people a fifth believe going to university is not important to getting on in life, almost double the 11 per cent who said higher education is not important when surveyed by the charity in 2013.
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