A vehicle control system equipped with: a driving control section for setting control to automatic driving control, whereby acceleration/deceleration and/or steering of a host vehicle is automaticallycontrolled by executing one of multiple modes having different degrees of automatic driving, or for setting control to manual driving control, whereby both acceleration/deceleration and steering of the host vehicle are controlled on the basis of operations performed by an occupant; a skill level recognition section for recognizing a skill level of the occupant of the host vehicle; and a mode control section for selecting a mode to be executed by the driving control section, and for controlling the degree of change of the mode on the basis of the skill level recognized by the skill level recognition section.