The invention discloses a two-stage thermotube type EGR cooler. The two-stage thermotube type EGR cooler mainly consists of a shell with an exhaust gas inlet and an exhaust gas outlet respectively arranged on two ends of the cooler and a two-stage thermotube with heating sections arranged inside the shell. The thermotube is communicated with four pipe sections of a heating section, a steam tube, a condensation section and a condensation tube in turn from beginning to end; the heating sections of the two-stage thermotube are arranged along the exhaust gas flow direction in order; and the condensation sections of the two-stage thermotube are overlapped and arranged along the radiation wind blowing direction. In the two-stage thermotube, a first stage thermotube and a second stage thermotube respectively adopt water and methanol as cooling mediums. The two-stage thermotube type EGR cooler adopts the principle of cooling exhaust gas by the thermotube technology and has good cooling effect. In addition, the reasonable combination of the two-stage thermotube and the cross matching of two radiating mediums further improve the temperature reduction effect of the cooler.