Extend Your Reality
Immersive Media Design at the University of Maryland is a four-year, cross-disciplinary undergraduate program that prepares students to excel in digital creativity and innovation using the latest immersive media tools and technologies.
Immersive Media Design (IMD) offers a unique undergraduate program giving students an opportunity to combine their artistic talents with computer science.
Steeped in technology, this program allows students an opportunity to code, create, and collaborate in immersive ways. Innovative researchers, digital artists, computer scientists, and experts in augmented and virtual reality, and human computer interaction, comprise the faculty. They represent just a small portion of what students can do with a degree in Immersive Media Design at the University of Maryland.
If you're interested in Artificial Intelligence and digital media, the Immersive Media Design program offers a major in the nationally ranked Computer Science Department with its exceptional AI faculty. Five IMD faculty are experts in AI. You can learn how to apply AI to art, games and media at UMD.
Students can pursue a Bachelor of Arts in Emerging Creatives or a Bachelor of Science in Computing. Students choose their degree pathway based on their interest in technical or aesthetic approaches to immersive media. The Bachelor of Arts is offered through the College of Arts and Humanities and the Bachelor of Science is offered through the College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences.
Current Students
Current Immersive Media Design students can find pertinent college and department policies and procedures, portfolio information, and campus resources available to them here.
Prospective Students
Interested in pursuing Immersive Media Design at the University of Maryland? You can find more information based on whether you are a current UMD student interesting in changing majors, a transfer student, or an incoming first-year student here!
Articles
IMD's New Works Incubator Showcase
This fall, the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center once again transformed the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, and other nooks of campus, into an energetic hub of artistic celebration and collaboration with its annual NextNOW Fest. A beloved tradition of the UMD arts scene started in 2015, the multi-day festival brought together a mix of performances, exhibitions, and immersive experiences created by both local artists and UMD’s own creative community.
IMD Students Take 1st Place at hackUMBC 2025
Congratulations to IMD majors Kadan Knapp, Samuel Wiggins, and Daryn Rowse, along with Game Developers Club president Declan Scott, for winning First Place in the Game Jam at hackUMBC 2025! Competing against 35 teams, they created a game in just 24 hours based on the theme “ARCADE.”
A ‘Wave’ of New Understanding About Earth’s Oceans and Atmosphere
By Sala Levin '10 Original Article On one towering screen, monochrome clouds whoosh by as if the viewer is watching them from above. On the next screen, a range of blues and greens on a section of ocean represents the levels of carbon and chlorophyll present. On a third, a rainbow effect on the outer edges of an image of Earth shows how far various wavelengths can penetrate the planet’s surface.
An AR-Aided View of Black History
By Brianna Rhodes Original Article Visitors pointing their phones at the unassuming log cabin tucked along a wooded road in Olney, Md., may see a 19th-century wash basin still wet with laundry just outside the back door, chickens roaming around a wooden coop or a neighboring log cabin just yards away.
UMD's Immersive Media Design Program Bridges Art and Technology
By Samuel Malede Zewdu, CS Communications Original Article