The invention provides a preparation method of 2-methyl-2-adamantyl acrylate, which is characterized in that under low temperature condition, an active intermediate is formed by adamantane ketone and bromomethane under effect of lithium metal, and the active intermediate and acrylic anhydride are reacted to obtain 2-methyl-2-adamantyl acrylate. In the provided synthetic method, through the selection of reaction condition of each step, such as reaction temperature, reaction proportion, reaction time and reaction raw materials, and the problems of difficult purification, high cost, low reaction yield, low purity of product and inapplicable large scale industrial production in prior art can be overcome.