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HQTS: P: (609) 716-4000 • F: (609) 716-0706

195 Clarksville Road • Princeton Jct., NJ 08550

www.mistrasgroup.com

Via EDGAR, Overnight Courier and Facsimile

February 24, 2011

Securities and Exchange Commission

Division of Corporation Finance

100 F Street, N.E.

Washington, DC 20549

    Attention:

    Jay Ingram, Legal Branch Chief

    Erin K. Jaskot, Staff Attorney

    Re:

    Mistras Group, Inc.

    Form 10-K for the Fiscal Year Ended May 31, 2010

    Filed August 17, 2010

    Definitive Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A

    Filed September 16, 2010

Ladies and Gentlemen:

Mistras Group, Inc. (“Mistras” or the “Company”) is submitting this letter in response to the
comments from the staff (the “Staff”) of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”)
contained in the letter dated February 18, 2011 (the “February 18 Comment Letter”) relating to the
reports referenced above. The February 18 Comment Letter pertains to Company’s letter dated
February 11, 2011, in which the Company responded to the Staff’s comment letter to the Company
dated January 28, 2011. Please find our responses to the February 18 Comment Letter below. For
your convenience, each of the comments in the February 18 Comment Letter is included immediately
preceding our response to the comment, and the headings and numbered responses in this response
letter correspond to the headings and numbered comments contained in the February 18 Comment
Letter.

Form 10-K for the Fiscal Year Ended May 31, 2010

Staff Comment #1:

Business, page 3

General

    1.

    We note your response to comment two in our letter dated January 28, 2011.
Please confirm that you will provide disclosure regarding the extent to which the
business of your segments is seasonal in your Business section in future filings. We
note that the revised disclosure you have included in your response is included within
the Risk Factors. See Item 101(c)(v) of Regulation S-K.

Response to Comment #1:

The Company respectfully acknowledges the Staff’s comment. The Company confirms that it will
provide disclosure regarding the seasonality of its segments in the Business section of future
filings as required by Item 101(c)(v) of Regulation S-K.

    Securities and Exchange Commission

    February 24, 2011

    Page 2

Definitive Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A

Staff Comment #2:

Compensation Discussion and Analysis, page 16

Annual Cash Incentives, page 17

    2.

    We note your response to Comment 15 in our letter dated January 28, 2011,
however, given your disclosure on page 17 stating that each executive officer has the
potential to earn cash incentives based upon a percentage of his or her base salary,
and the cash incentives were principally based upon a pre-determined performance
targets for revenue and adjusted EBITDA, we are not able to concur with your view that
you did not have an incentive plan as that term is defined in Item 402(a)(6)(iii) of
Regulation S-K. We recognize that because you did not meet targets, the bonuses
ultimately paid to your named executive officers were discretionary. However, despite
the fact that the applicable performance targets were not met, Item 402(d)(2)(iii)
requires that the potential payments that could have been made pursuant under your
annual cash incentive plan be disclosed in the Grants of Plan-Based Awards table.
Please confirm that in your future filings, you will provide the requisite disclosure
in the Grants of Plan-Based Awards table for any such incentive plan, or advise us as
to why you believe such disclosure was not required.

Response to Comment #2:

The Company respectfully acknowledges the Staff’s comment. The Company confirms that in future
filings, it will make the requisite disclosure in the Grants of Plan-Based Award table for its
incentive plans. Please note that the Company’s Compensation Committee recently adopted incentive
compensation plans, as disclosed in the Current Report on Form 8-K filed February 14, 2011.

The Company acknowledges that:

    •

    The Company is responsible for the adequacy and accuracy of the disclosure in its
filings;

    •

    Staff comments or changes to disclosure in response to Staff comments do not
foreclose the Commission from taking any action with respect to the Company’s filings;
and

    •

    The Company may not assert Staff comments as a defense in any proceeding initiated
by the Commission or any person under the federal securities laws of the United States.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to call the undersigned at (609) 716-4128.

    Very truly yours,

Mistras Group, Inc.

                                     /s/ Michael C. Keefe

    Michael C. Keefe

    Executive Vice President, General Counsel
and Secretary