The invention discloses a method for extracting sterol from vegetable oil deodorizing distillate. According to the method, the waste vegetable oil deodorizing distillate generated in an edible oil refining process is used for producing a valuable environment-friendly plant-sourced original drug sterol; a saturated cyclic ketone solvent is selected, cyclohexanone is used as a dissolving solution, the solubility difference of the sterol in a distillate extract along with the temperature change is great, and the solubility differences of other steroids along with the temperature change are small, so that not only is the quality index of the sterol guaranteed, but also the yield is increased; the method is relatively simple in process, relatively low in cost and mature in technology; material reaction happens under a normal circumstance, and sources of raw materials are wide; meanwhile, the method provided by the invention is applicable to industrial and large-scale production.