The main objective of this study is to determine the level of ethnic tolerance among students in Malaysian public universities. The study involved 378 respondents from three public research universities and represented by three major ethnics, the Malays, Chinese and Indians. The research utilized quantitative method and the data were collected through a set of questionnaire, based upon ethnic tolerance concept developed by past researchers. The data was analyzed using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) software version 22. The findings reveal that in general the level of tolerance among the students is satisfactorily high. Meanwhile, the Malay students were found to have the tolerant level of 83.0%, followed by the Indians with 71.4%, and the Chinese with 67.5%.