The present disclosure discloses a method for acquiring Multicast Control Channel (MCCH) information, which includes that: in a Multimedia Broadcast Single Frequency Network (MBSFN) area which includes more than two MCCHs, when User Equipment (UE) detects that a interested MBMS service is started, the UE further determines whether a correspondence relationship between the interested MBMS service and the MCCHs exists, and the UE only acquires MCCH information corresponding to the interested MBMS service when the correspondence relationship exists, otherwise the UE acquires all MCCH information in the MBSFN area. The disclosure further discloses an apparatus and UE for acquiring MCCH information. It is ensured that UE in an overlapped MBSFN area receives a presently started MBMS service in time.