University of Illinois President Timothy Killeen is recommending that trustees freeze tuition for a second straight year for instate freshmen.
Killeen says the university needs to ensure students from Illinois can still afford to go to school at one of its three campuses.
Tuition for instate students would remain at slightly over $12-thousand a year at the Urbana-Champaign campus, $10,584 in Chicago and $9,405-dollars in Springfield.
Under Illinois law, freshman starting at state schools pay the same tuition for four years.
Killeen had said earlier that he would like to avoid raising tuition but was not sure that was possible given that the state's budget stalemate.
Trustees are scheduled to vote on tuition and housing rates for next school year at their meeting Thursday in Chicago.
