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The intent of this study was to assess the Prevalence of Plagiarisms and its implication tornquality of education: The case of Addis Ababa University. Both quantitative andrnqualitative data were collected through questionnaires, interviews and participant’srnobservers. A sample of eight departments was selected randomly among 40 postgraduaternstudies. A sample of 163 students participated from 483 postgraduate students of regularrnand extension program; besides 9 instructors were interviewed. The data were analyzedrnusing Percentages, means and standard deviation. The findings reveal that internetrnplagiarisms and plagiarisms due poor understanding of in text citation, paraphrasingrnand referencing prevail most due to intentional plagiarism act of pressure to succeed andrnunintentional act of poor understanding of in text citation, paraphrasing and referencingrnconventions. Further, absence of vivid and inclusive mechanisms to identify thernauthenticity of students work across the selected departments show that there is a loosenrnant-plagiarism movements in the departments. Therefore, this study suggests differentrnrecommendations and the main ones are departments and institutes should preparerncommon explicit simple examples of correct text acknowledgements conventions thatrncould be put on the course outlines of each courses/modules; the nation higherrneducations should have a hub data base and software’s that could help instructors arncross the nation to check their students work with others prior work; student’s papersrnand thesis titles have to be guided to new issues and contemporary problems of thernsociety to minimize replications and scrabbling on similar arena

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