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.
Excellent instructors in small classes guide students as they learn digital media tools—including game development engines, computer modeling, motion capture, 3D scanning, 3D printing, virtual production, and 360° sound—and apply these tools to create computer games, interactive installations, historical recreations, scientific visualizations, engineering designs.Students can take advantage of the events, clubs, courses and community in the Departments of Art and Computer Science.
They participate in game design and XR clubs, as well as annual hackathons, including Technica, the world’s largest hackathon for underrepresented genders. Students work on research projects, from visualizing weather data for NASA to machine learning to create 3D models for games.
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!