Many residents are opposed to increases in college tuition fees and want universities to reveal their financial situations, according to an online survey released on Thursday.

Roughly 76 percent of 2,083 survey respondents are opposed to recent increases in tuition fees, according to a survey by China Youth Daily and the consulting firm ePanel.

About 79 percent of those surveyed said they were college graduates, 8.1 percent are currently college students and 56 percent of the respondents said one or more of their family members are college students, according to the survey.