Nearly 8 in 10 Americans said it is good for U.S. colleges and universities to accept international students, according to a survey that was released Wednesday. 

The new Pew Research poll found 79 percent of U.S. citizens think it is good for U.S. higher education institutions to bring on foreign students. The figure includes 66 percent of Republicans and 93 percent of Democrats. 

GOP voters younger than 50 years are more likely than those older than 50 to argue that it is good for colleges to accept international students, 76 percent to 56 percent. 

U.S. adults who have at least a bachelor’s degree, 87 percent, are more likely than those without one, 76 percent, to argue that accepting foreign students into U.S. schools is good. 

A portion of the public supports certain restrictions on international students. Seventy percent of GOP voters and 42 percent of all respondents said the government should be able to cancel visas of foreign students who have criticized U.S. foreign policy. Only 16 percent of Democrats agree with this stance, the poll found. 

Another 56 percent of Americans do not think the U.S. should be able to revoke students visas of international students who are critical of U.S. foreign policy. 

While most Americans support having foreign students at U.S. universities, about half of them are supportive of limiting the number of Chinese students at those schools, according to the survey. Some also support those restrictions on students from India (44 percent), Nigeria (42 percent), South Korea (41 percent) and Canada (34 percent). 

The poll was conducted Sept. 2-8 among 8,750 U.S. adults. and had a margin of error of 1.4 percentage points.