The invention discloses a virtual automatic control experimental system and a design method of the virtual automatic control experimental system. The virtual automatic control experimental system comprises a time domain analysis method experiment module, a root-locus method experiment module, a frequency domain analysis method experiment module, a system correction experiment module and an open experiment module, wherein the time domain analysis method experiment module comprises a first-order system time domain analysis module, a second-order system time domain analysis module and a high-order system time domain analysis module; the root-locus method experiment module comprises a second-order system root-locus analysis module, a third-order system root-locus analysis module and a high-order system root-locus analysis module; the frequency domain analysis method experiment module comprises a typical link frequency response characteristic analysis module and a composite system frequency response analysis module; the system correction experiment module comprises a series connection lead correction module, a series connection lag correction module, a series connection lag-lead correction module and a PID correction module; the open experiment module comprises a water level control module, an elevator control module and a traffic lamp control module. By means of the virtual automatic control experimental system and the design method, a user can design and simulate an automatic control experiment, the efficiency of the automatic control experiment is improved, limitation of hardware equipment is avoided, an experimenter can conveniently have a study, and shortcomings in a traditional experiment are overcome.