The purposes of this study was to asses and understand the magnitude and level ofrnattitude and pract ice towards mu lti cultural education by teachers and students in somernselected private higher education in stitutions in Addis Ababa. Moreover it wasrnconducted in order to understand the di ffe rence among teachers as well as amongrnstudents on the level of attitude and practice they have. This research has alsornattempted to see the presence of gender difference among teachers and also amongrnstudents on the ir attitude and practice towards multi cultural education. In this study arntotal of 298 teachers and stud ents were taken as a sampl e. From this sample 58 ofrnthem were teachers and 240 were students. For a better und erstanding of the situat ionrna mixed researc h method was employed with an emphasis on triangul ation design.rnQuestionnaire, FGD and observat ion were used as method of data co llection. Thernmean va lue, I" eq uency, percentiles and expected mean were used for analyzing thernquantitative data while the qualitat ive data were thematically organized, categorizedrnand exami ned to undcrstand the emerging patterns of responses. .F.,i.n--a-lly the results ofrnthi s study showed th at the majority of teachers and students were found as having arngood level of pos itive attitude and a higher level of pract ice which is advocated by therngoa ls and philoso phies of multicultural educat ion. However from both, teachers andrnstudents proportions that cann ot be taken as in signifi cant have been found to have arnnegative incl inat ion and a lower practice of elements that are promoted byrnmulti cu ltural educati on. Therefore, for enabling the in stitutes to be benefited fromrnmulti cultural in this study it is recommended that the institutes, teachers and studentsrnshould prepare them se lves to know, und erstand and utilize the concepts, ideas and /rnprograms of mu lticultura l education.