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{{Short description|Private university in Brooklyn, New York, US}}
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{{Infobox university
 | name                   = Pratt Institute
 | image                  = Pratt Institute Seal.png
 | image_upright          = 0.7
 | motto                  = Be true to your work, and your work will be true to you
 | type                   = [[Private university|Private]] [[university]]
 | established            = {{Start date and age|1887|df=yes|p=y}}
 | founder                = [[Charles Pratt]]
 | endowment              = $232.5 million (2022)<ref>As of June 30, 2022. {{cite report |url=https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/reported-data/194578?year=2022&surveyNumber=6 |title=Value of Endowment Net Assets in Endowment Market Value from FY21 to FY22 |access-date=January 6, 2024 }}</ref>
 | president              = [[Frances Bronet]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pratt.edu/the-institute/administration-resources/office-of-the-president/about/|title=About Frances Bronet|publisher=Pratt Institute|access-date=April 26, 2021|archive-date=April 18, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210418061126/https://www.pratt.edu/the-institute/administration-resources/office-of-the-president/about/|url-status=live}}</ref>
 | academic_staff         = 880 (full-time) <br> 1,086 (part-time)<ref name="Quickfacts">{{cite web|url=https://www.pratt.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/OIRA-Quick-Facts-Brochure.pdf|title=OIRA Quick Facts Brochure|website=Pratt Institute|access-date=October 21, 2024|archive-date=April 12, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190412133034/https://www.pratt.edu/uploads/CDS_2018_2019_Pratt.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>
 | administrative_staff   = 
 | students               = 5,232 (fall 2023)<ref name="U.S. News">{{cite web | title=Pratt Institute Student Life | website=US News Best Colleges | date=16 June 2014 | url=https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/pratt-institute-2798/student-life | access-date=21 October 2024 | archive-date=13 December 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221213094916/https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/pratt-institute-2798/student-life | url-status=live }}</ref>
 | undergrad              = 3,814 (fall 2023)<ref name="U.S. News"/>
 | postgrad               = 1,418 (fall 2023)<ref name="U.S. News"/>
 | city                   = [[New York City]]
 | state                  = [[New York (state)|New York]]
 | country                = United States
 | postcode               = 11205
 | coordinates            = {{Coord|40.691111|-73.963889|display=inline,title|format=dms|type:edu_region:US-NY}}
 | campus                 = Large City, [[Urban area|Urban]], {{convert|25|acre|ha|1}}
 | colors                 = [[Yellow (color)|Yellow]], [[Black (color)|Black]], [[Gray (color)|Gray]] and [[White (color)|White]]<ref name="Identity">{{cite web|url=https://www.pratt.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Pratt_VisualIdentityGuidelines_V2.pdf|title=Identity Guidelines|website=Pratt Institute|access-date=Oct 21, 2024}}{{dead link|date=May 2024}}</ref> <br> {{Color box|#FFCE2E}} {{Color box|#000000}} {{Color box|#B7B8B9}} {{Color box|#FFFFFF}}
 | athletics_nickname     = [[Cannoneer]]s
 | sporting_affiliations  = [[Division III (NCAA)|NCAA Division III]] - [[Atlantic East Conference|Atlantic East]]
 | mascot                 = Charlie the Cannoneer<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pratt.edu/news/view/helena-duncan-b.f.a.-writing-17-wins-pratt-mascot-naming-contest|title=Helena Duncan (B.F.A. Writing '17) Wins Pratt Mascot Naming Contest|website=Pratt Institute|access-date=May 24, 2018}}</ref>
 | website                = {{URL|https://www.pratt.edu/|pratt.edu}}
 | logo                   = Pratt Institute Logo.svg
 | logo_upright           = .6
}}

'''Pratt Institute''' is a [[private university]] with its main campus in [[Brooklyn, New York]]. It has an additional campus in [[Manhattan]] and an extension campus in [[Utica, New York]] at the [[Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute]].<ref name="At a Glance">{{cite web|url=https://www.pratt.edu/the-institute/pratt-glance/|title=Pratt at a Glance|website=Pratt Institute|access-date=May 24, 2018|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20190422225926/https://www.pratt.edu/the-institute/pratt-glance/|archivedate=2019-04-22}}</ref> The institute was founded in 1887 with programs primarily in [[engineering]], [[architecture]], and fine arts.<ref>{{cite news|title=Pratt Decides to end school for engineers|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/12/13/nyregion/pratt-decides-to-end-school-for-engineers.html|publisher=NYT|access-date=15 February 2013|first=Mary B. W.|last=Tabor|date=13 December 1991|archive-date=3 April 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120403014723/http://www.nytimes.com/1991/12/13/nyregion/pratt-decides-to-end-school-for-engineers.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Comprising six schools, the institute is primarily known for its programs in [[Pratt Institute School of Architecture|architecture]], [[graphic design]], [[interior design]], [[industrial design]], and [[fine art]]s.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.pratt.edu/admissions/request_information/facts_and_figures/|title=Pratt Institute|access-date=2013-06-18|archive-date=2014-03-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140312014835/http://www.pratt.edu/admissions/request_information/facts_and_figures/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==History==

===Inception===
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[[File:Charles Pratt.jpg|thumb|left|170px|[[Charles Pratt]], founder of Pratt Institute]]
Pratt Institute was founded in 1887 by American [[industrialist]] [[Charles Pratt]], who was a successful businessman and oil tycoon and was one of the wealthiest men in the history of Brooklyn. Pratt was an early pioneer of the [[oil industry]] in the United States and was the founder of [[Astral Oil Works]] based in the [[Greenpoint, Brooklyn|Greenpoint]] section of Brooklyn which was a leader in replacing [[whale oil]] with petroleum or natural oil. In 1867, Pratt established [[Charles Pratt and Company]]. In 1874, Pratt's companies amalgamated with [[John D. Rockefeller]]'s companies. They became part of the [[Standard Oil]] trust where Pratt continued his active involvement on the board and the running of it.

Pratt, an advocate of education, wanted to provide working men and women the opportunity to better their lives through education. Even though Pratt never had the chance to go to [[college]] himself, he wanted to create an affordable college accessible to the working class. Beginning with the 1884 purchases of large plots of land near his home in Clinton Hill to open a school. The school would end up being built only two blocks from Charles Pratt's residence on Clinton Avenue.

From his fortunes with Astral Oil and [[Charles Pratt and Company]], in 1886 he endowed and founded Pratt Institute. In May 1887, the [[New York State Legislature]] granted Charles Pratt a charter to open the school; on October 17, 1887, the institute opened to 12 students in the Main Hall. Tuition was $4 per class per term (approximately {{Inflation|US|4|1887|fmt=eq|r=1}}).<ref name="wilw">{{Cite web |title=Prattfolio Fall/Winter 2011 "Generations Issue" by Pratt Institute – Issuu |url=https://issuu.com/prattinstitute/docs/prattfolio-fallwinter-2011-generations |access-date= |via=issuu.com. 28 September 2011.}}</ref> The college was one of the first in the country open to all people, regardless of class, color, and gender. In the early years, the institute's mission was to offer education to those who never had it offered to them before. Pratt believed that teaching technical skills-drawing, building, designing-promoted intellectual thought and creativity. And in a reciprocal manner, exposure to the ideals and aesthetics of fine art. Specifically, many programs were tailored to the growing need to train industrial workers in the changing economy with training in design and engineering. Early programs sought to teach students a variety of subjects such as architectural engineering, mechanics, dressmaking, and furniture making. Graduates of the school were taught to become engineers, mechanics, and technicians. Drawing, whether freehand, mechanical, or architectural, thought of as being a universal language, united such diverse programs and thus all programs in the school had a strong foundation in drawing. In addition, the curriculum at the institute was to be complemented by a large Liberal Arts curriculum. Students studied subjects such as history, mathematics, physics, and literature to better understand the world in which they would be working, which is still used in Pratt's curriculum.<ref name="wilw" /><ref name="issuu-125th" />

===Early years===
[[File:NIE Kindergarten Pratt Institute Brooklyn.jpg|thumb|Pratt Institute Kindergarten, 1905]]
Enrollment grew steadily from its inception. Six months after opening, the school had an enrollment of nearly 600 students. By the first anniversary of the school, there were 1,000 students in attendance. In five years the school had nearly 4,000 students.<ref name="wilw" /> In 1888, ''[[Scientific American]]'' said of the school that "it is undoubtedly the most important enterprise of its kind in this country, if not in the world".<ref name="wilw" /> [[Andrew Carnegie]] visited Pratt for inspiration and used the school as a model in developing Carnegie Technical Schools, now [[Carnegie Mellon University]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2249&dat=19020116&id=zZ4-AAAAIBAJ&sjid=R1oMAAAAIBAJ&pg=3973,2142724|title=Boston Evening Transcript – Google News Archive Search|website=news.google.com|access-date=2016-10-08|archive-date=2016-05-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160512201902/https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2249&dat=19020116&id=zZ4-AAAAIBAJ&sjid=R1oMAAAAIBAJ&pg=3973,2142724|url-status=live}}</ref> At the first Founder's Day celebration in 1888, Charles Pratt addressed what would become the school's motto: "be true to your work and your work will be true to you"—meaning that students should educate and develop themselves diligently and go out into the world working hard, giving all of themselves.

As public interest grew in the school and demand increased, the school began adding new programs including the Pratt High School, Library School, Music Department, and Department of Commerce.<ref name="scup">{{Cite web |url=http://www.scup.org/asset/52919/45073%20Pratt%20MP%20Report-Part%201-Composited.pdf |title=45073 Pratt MP Report-Part 1-Intro-Analysis-060912.indd<!-- Bot generated title --> |access-date=2013-06-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029192319/http://www.scup.org/asset/52919/45073%20Pratt%20MP%20Report-Part%201-Composited.pdf |archive-date=2013-10-29 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Because of the overwhelming popularity of the Department of Commerce, the department broke off from the main institute and formed its own school, under the guidance of Norman P. Heffley, personal secretary to Charles Pratt.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.brownstoner.com/architecture/draftbuilding-of-the-day-375-pearl-street/|title=Building of the Day: 375 Pearl Street|first=Suzanne Spellen (aka Montrose|last=Morris)|date=August 23, 2011|website=Brownstoner|access-date=January 7, 2022|archive-date=January 7, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220107195627/https://www.brownstoner.com/architecture/draftbuilding-of-the-day-375-pearl-street/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aRRSAAAAYAAJ&dq=Heffley+School+of+Commerce&pg=PA2|title=Shorthand Educator: A Monthly Magazine|date=January 7, 1898|via=Google Books}}</ref> '''The Heffley School of Commerce''', the former Pratt Department of Commerce, originally having shared facilities with Pratt, evolved into [[Brooklyn Law School]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.brownstoner.com/brooklyn-life/walkabout-steno/|title=Stenography and the Law|first=Suzanne Spellen (aka Montrose|last=Morris)|date=September 2, 2010|website=Brownstoner|access-date=January 7, 2022|archive-date=January 7, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220107195627/https://www.brownstoner.com/brooklyn-life/walkabout-steno/|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 1891, the institute's founder and first president, Charles Pratt, died and his eldest son, [[Charles Millard Pratt]], became president of the school. In 1923, Charles Pratt's other son, [[Frederic B. Pratt]], was elected President of Pratt Institute taking over from his elder brother.<ref>https://www.pratt.edu/about/leadership-governance/office-of-the-president/past-presidents/</ref> Because Charles Pratt Snr. died so soon after the college was founded, Frederic Pratt is ascribed with guiding the college through its early decades.<ref>[http://www.pratt.edu/about_pratt/history/the_pratt_family/ The History of Pratt] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130530124449/http://www.pratt.edu/about_pratt/history/the_pratt_family/ |date=2013-05-30}}, Pratt Institute. Retrieved 8 May 2013.</ref> Under the direction of Pratt's sons, the institute thrived both financially and critically with many new construction projects and courses. By 1892, the number of students enrolled was 3,900. In 1897 the most popular major was domestic arts.<ref name="issuu-fallwinter2011">{{Cite web|url=https://issuu.com/prattinstitute/docs/prattfolio-fallwinter-2011-generations|title=Prattfolio Fall/Winter 2011 "Generations Issue" by Pratt Institute – Issuu|website=issuu.com|date=28 September 2011}}</ref>

In 1896, the school opened its monumental [[Renaissance Revival architecture|Victorian-Renaissance Revival]] [[Pratt Institute Libraries|library]] with interiors designed by the [[Louis Comfort Tiffany|Tiffany Decorating and Glass Company]] and sprawling gardens outside the library. The library was open to students and the general public as well. The Pratt Institute Library was the first and only public library in Brooklyn for nearly 15 years. It served as a working classroom for the training of librarians and was one of the first schools of [[library science]]. The Pratt Institute Library also made available the first reading room for children in New York City.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://library.pratt.edu/libraries/ |title=About |publisher=Pratt Institute Libraries |access-date=2022-01-07 |archive-date=2022-01-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220107195627/https://library.pratt.edu/libraries/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

By the turn of the century, The School of Science and Technology had become Pratt's most prestigious and well-known school and constituted most of the school's enrollment.<ref name="issuu-125th" /><ref>{{cite news |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1912/06/02/100585742.pdf |work=The New York Times |title=From an Educational Experiment, Pratt's Institute Has Grown in 25 Years Into a Splendid Institution With 4,31 0 Students |date=2 June 1912 |access-date=14 June 2018 |archive-date=20 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210520194446/https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1912/06/02/100585742.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> Across from East Building on Grand Avenue, the institute constructed a new quad for the engineering school over a quarter of a century. The Chemistry, Machinery, and Engineering buildings were constructed in the same architectural style, unifying all disciplines offered by the School. Pratt also had a variety of courses dedicated specifically to women. Some of the 25 courses women could partake in included [[library science]], [[nursing]], [[home economics]], and [[fashion]].<ref name="issuu-125th">{{Cite web|url=https://issuu.com/prattinstitute/docs/prattfolio-125th-anniversary-2012|title=Prattfolio "125th Anniversary Commemorative Issue" by Pratt Institute – Issuu|website=issuu.com|date=16 May 2012|access-date=7 January 2022|archive-date=7 January 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220107195626/https://issuu.com/prattinstitute/docs/prattfolio-125th-anniversary-2012|url-status=live}}</ref>

By 1910, all of the departments of the institute were organized as individual schools including the Library School, School of Domestic Science, School of Fine and Applied Arts, and the School of Science and Technology.<ref name="issuu-125th" />

===Degree-granting status and increase in enrollment===
[[File:Pratt war flagpole base jeh.jpg|thumb|150px|World War One Memorial in the Rose Garden]]

As [[World War I]] faced the nation in 1914, Pratt partnered with the [[United States government]] to aid the war effort. The School of Science and Technology had its own Student Army Training Corps which taught enlistees engineering skills needed for the war. Students designed aircraft used in the war and trained pilots. In 1927, [[mechanical engineering]] alumnus [[Donald A. Hall]] designed the ''[[Spirit of Saint Louis]]'', used by [[Charles Lindbergh]] in the first transatlantic flight.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://125.pratt.edu/gallery/artist/donald_a._hall |title=Pratt Institute {{!}} Celebrating 125 Years {{!}} Pratt Icons Gallery {{!}} Donald A. Hall<!-- Bot generated title --> |access-date=2013-06-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130728184905/http://125.pratt.edu/gallery/artist/donald_a._hall |archive-date=2013-07-28 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

By 1938, most programs at the school had begun offering four-year [[Bachelor of Science]] [[Academic degree|degrees]] and Pratt transformed itself from a [[technical school]] to a college.<ref name="bulletin">[http://www.pratt.edu/uploads/undergrad_bulletin.pdf Undergraduate Bulletin] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150217212051/https://www.pratt.edu/uploads/undergrad_bulletin.pdf |date=2015-02-17 }} pratt.edu</ref> By granting bachelor's degrees, Pratt had to revise its curriculum from two years to four years. The changes also reflected New York State requirements for granting degrees and stricter government and professional licensing regulations for graduates. During this decade, the basic program for all Art School students was founded.<ref name="issuu-125th" /> In 1940 Pratt began granting graduate degrees.<ref name="bulletin" />

During [[World War II]], Pratt also helped in the war effort as it did during World War I with the engineering school training servicemen before they were deployed. Students helped to design [[camouflage]] for soldiers, buildings, and weapons. Following the war, the school saw a large influx of [[veterans]] enrolling as part of the [[GI Bill]].

In the 1940s, the School of Science and Technology changed its name to the School of Engineering and in 1946 established its own [[honor society]] with [[mechanical engineering]] becoming the most popular major at Pratt.<ref name="issuu-fallwinter2011" /> In 1953, Francis H. Horn became the first president of Pratt who was not a member of the Pratt family. Enrollment continued to climb throughout the decade and in 1948 the institute reached an all-time high in attendance with 6,000 students.<ref name="issuu-fallwinter2011" /> By 1950, Pratt had become [[Higher education accreditation in the United States|accredited]] by the [[Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools]].<ref name="scup" /> In 1954, the architecture department split from the Engineering School to become its own school.<ref name="issuu-125th" />

===Campus reorganization===
[[File:Prattdekalbjeh.JPG|thumb|DeKalb Avenue Gate of Enclosed Campus]]

As part of [[white flight]] in the 1950s and 1960s which affected the majority of [[New York City]] the neighborhood of Clinton Hill began to see a transformation from an upper-class, affluent, white community to one chiefly populated by poor and working-class people of color. Pratt considered moving its campus to more affluent [[Long Island]] or [[Manhattan]] to increase its attractiveness but decided to stay at its original Brooklyn campus due to the history and Charles Pratt's mission.<ref name="issuu-125th" />

As a consequence of [[Robert Moses|Robert Moses']] plan for [[urban renewal]] in New York City, Pratt's physical campus saw the greatest amount of change in its history. Before the 1950s, the school was located in separate buildings located on several public streets. However, after Moses' clearance of many structures located between Pratt's buildings, including homes, the land was given over to the school, and a true campus was established. Ryerson Street, Grand Avenue, Steuben Street, and Emerson Place were closed to automobile traffic, and the campus was enclosed, forming the Grand Mall to connect the institute's buildings.<ref name="Powell">{{cite news|last=Powell|first=Michael|title=A Tale Of Two Cities|work=The New York Times|page=1|date=6 May 2007|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/06/nyregion/thecity/06hist.html|access-date=12 February 2017|archive-date=3 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210103002343/https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/06/nyregion/thecity/06hist.html|url-status=live}}</ref> The elevated train running along Grand Avenue between the East Building/Student Union and the Engineering Quad was dismantled. In the new real estate, the school was able to build several new structures, Dekalb Hall, Information Science Center and North Hall, all designed by the firm of [[McKim, Mead & White]], including the Information Science Center and Dekalb Hall as well as a new student union.<ref name="campus">{{Cite web |url=http://mysite.pratt.edu/~cg520/frames_c/campus/text.txt |title=Archived copy |access-date=2013-06-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150512101253/http://mysite.pratt.edu/~cg520/frames_c/campus/text.txt |archive-date=2015-05-12 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Moses' construction projects around the school helped to build the School of Architecture. Research funds were granted to the school to help discover new building techniques. By 1963, the urban planning department formed the Pratt Center for Community Development in an attempt to revitalize Pratt's surrounding neighborhood and Brooklyn.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://prattcenter.net/pratt-center-story|title=The Pratt Center Story &#124; Pratt Center<!-- Bot generated title -->|accessdate=8 July 2023|archive-date=22 October 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131022005911/http://prattcenter.net/pratt-center-story|url-status=dead}}</ref>

===Enrollment decline and financial issues===
In the 1970s and continuing well into the 1980s New York City and Brooklyn still faced large amounts of crime and poverty. Enrollment fell and the school faced a [[budget deficit]]. Prospective students and faculty felt uneasy about the safety of the campus and community. In 1974, the men's basketball team came to the attention of national media outlets when Cyndi Meserve joined the team becoming the first woman to play men's [[NCAA basketball]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1346&dat=19750609&id=QK8wAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1PoDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6957,2437699|title=Lakeland Ledger – Google News Archive Search|website=news.google.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.pressherald.com/archive/making-history-but-just-wanting-to-play-ball_2008-12-04.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130628042726/http://www.pressherald.com/archive/making-history-but-just-wanting-to-play-ball_2008-12-04.html|url-status=|archive-date=2013-06-28|title=Making history, but just wanting to play ball &#124; The Portland Press Herald / Maine Sunday Telegram}}</ref> More students earned architecture degrees than mechanical engineering degrees in 1975. Architecture degrees became the most popular degree at Pratt, and remain so.<ref name="issuu-fallwinter2011" /> In anticipation of the institute's centennial in 1987, several capital improvements were made to the campus, in an attempt to restore many dilapidated buildings. The Grand Mall was re-landscaped with new plantings, brick pathways, and lighting and the Newman Amphitheater was built in 1988 in celebration of the hundredth anniversary. President [[Richardson Pratt Jr]] retired in 1990 after nearly twenty years as president. He was the last president descended from founder Charles Pratt.

By 1993, [[Thomas F. Schutte]] was appointed as president and became the longest-serving president not from the Pratt family. In the same year, Pratt controversially closed its School of Engineering as announced in 1991.<ref name="nyt-1991-12-13" /> The School of Engineering had been an integral part of founder Charles Pratt's long-term vision. Historically, the school was Pratt's most successful, and many associated the school with its engineering program.<ref name="issuu-125th" /> In response to the institute-wide decrease in enrollment and school-wide budget issues, closing the School of Engineering was thought of as being the only feasible option to keep the school's other programs afloat and to address the budget. Students in the Engineering program were transferred to [[Polytechnic Institute of New York University]] while tenured professors were relocated to the School of Architecture and the science and math departments in the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences.<ref name="nyt-1991-12-13">{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/12/13/nyregion/pratt-decides-to-end-school-for-engineers.html?pagewanted=2&src=pm | work=The New York Times | title=Pratt Decides To End School For Engineers – Page 2 – New York Times | first=Mary B. W. | last=Tabor | date=13 December 1991 | access-date=12 February 2017 | archive-date=3 August 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160803063106/http://www.nytimes.com/1991/12/13/nyregion/pratt-decides-to-end-school-for-engineers.html?pagewanted=2&src=pm | url-status=live }}</ref>

===Revitalization and growth===
<!-- Deleted image removed: [[File:Pratt Institute Higgins Hall rebuilt center section.jpg|thumb|left|Higgins Hall center section rebuilt by Steven Holl]] -->
By closing the costly School of Engineering, the school was able to clear its debt and get on the track to financial success. Funds were allocated for campus-wide beautification projects and restoration and modernization of historic buildings, starting with Memorial Hall. Part of the beautification projects included adding the Pratt Institute Sculpture Park in 1999 where contemporary art sculptures are placed throughout the campus lawns and gardens, making it the largest contemporary sculpture park in New York City.<ref name="gridskipper">{{Cite web|url=http://gridskipper.com/archives/entries/57510/57510.php|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130628042722/http://gridskipper.com/archives/entries/57510/57510.php|url-status=dead|archive-date=2013-06-28|title=Pratt Sculpture Park – Gridskipper<!-- Bot generated title -->|accessdate=8 July 2023}}</ref> Pratt began a partnership with [[Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute|Pratt Munson College of Art and Design]] and [[Delaware College of Art and Design]] for art students to study for two years at either campus and finish their degrees at Pratt's School of Art and Design in Brooklyn. During the 1990s the school was able to increase enrollment by twenty-five percent, from approximately 3,000 students in 1990 to 4,000 students in 2000.<ref name="issuu-125th" />

Vincent A. Stabile, a 1940 graduate of the School of Engineering, donated about $13 million to Pratt, the largest donation made by any alumnus in the college's history,<ref name="issuu-125th" /> with the request to President Schutte that the donation be used to reopen the School of Engineering. President Schutte rejected Stabile's request and allocated his funds to construct a new residence hall named in his honor. From the mid-1980s to the 2000s Pratt experienced the transition from being mainly a commuter school to becoming a residential school through the construction of new residence halls Cannoneer Court, Pantas Hall, and Stabile Hall.

===Presidents===

# [[Charles Pratt]] (1830–1891), president from 1887 to 1891
# [[Charles Millard Pratt]] (1855–1935), president from 1891–1893
# [[Frederic B. Pratt]] (1865–1945), president from 1893–1937
# Charles Pratt (1892–?), president from 1937–1953
# [[Francis H. Horn]], president from 1953–1957
# [[Robert Fisher Oxnam]] (1915–1974), president from 1957–1960<ref>{{Cite news |date=1974-08-06 |title=Obituary for Robert Fisher Oxnam |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/progress-bulletin-obituary-for-robert-fi/57225233/ |access-date=2025-04-01 |work=Progress-Bulletin |pages=4}}</ref>
# [[Richard H. Heindel]] (c.1913–1979), president from 1961–1967,<ref>{{Cite news |date=1979-08-02 |title=Dr. Richard H. Heindel, Ex-Penn State Dean, 66 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1979/08/02/archives/dr-richard-h-heindel-expenn-state-dean-66.html |access-date=2025-04-01 |work=[[The New York Times]] |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
# [[James B. Donovan]] (1916–1970), president from 1968–1970
# [[Henry Saltzman]], acting president from 1970–1972<ref>{{Cite news |date=1970-02-12 |title=Ex-Education Aide Here Named Acting Head of Pratt Institute |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1970/02/12/archives/exeducation-aide-here-named-acting-head-of-pratt-institute.html |access-date=2025-04-01 |work=[[The New York Times]] |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
# [[Richardson Pratt Jr]]. (1923–2001) (grandson of Charles Millard Pratt; great-grandson of Charles Pratt), president from 1972–1990
# [[Warren F. Ilchman]] (1933–), president from 1990–1993
# [[Thomas F. Schutte]] (1936–2025), president from 1993–2017<ref>{{Cite web |date=March 29, 2025 |title=Dr. Thomas F. Schutte |url=https://www.post-journal.com/obituaries/2025/03/dr-thomas-f-schutte/ |access-date= |website=The Post-Journal |language=en-US}}</ref>
# [[Frances Bronet]], 2018–present

==Academics==

===Rankings===
In its 2025 rankings, ''[[U.S. News & World Report]]'' ranked several Pratt Institute's graduate programs highly: #15 in Best Fine Arts Programs, #11 in Painting/Drawing, #29 in Best Library and Information Studies Program, #10 in Archives and Preservation.<ref name="USNEWS">[https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/pratt-institute-main-194578/overall-rankings Pratt Institute – Overall Rankings – US News]</ref> The Bachelor of Architecture program has been ranked as being in the top fifteen programs in the United States consistently since 2000 according to ''Architectural Record''.<ref>{{cite web |title=America's Top Architecture Schools 2020 |url=https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/14289-americas-top-architecture-schools-2020 |website=Architectural Record |access-date=3 January 2021 |archive-date=14 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210114193731/https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/14289-americas-top-architecture-schools-2020 |url-status=live }}</ref>

While ''[[Kiplinger's Personal Finance]]'' previously named Pratt as one of the country's best values in private colleges and universities, it was no longer listed in their rankings as of 2019.<ref name="kiplinger">{{Cite web|url=https://www.kiplinger.com/article/college/t014-c000-s002-best-college-values-2019.html|title=Kiplinger's Best College Values, 2019|website=Kiplinger|date=25 July 2019|access-date=7 January 2022|archive-date=8 January 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220108225122/https://www.kiplinger.com/article/college/t014-c000-s002-best-college-values-2019.html|url-status=live}}</ref> It was previously included as one of the top values for academic quality and affordability out of more than 600 private institutions.

In 2023 and 2024, Pratt Institute was ranked sixth globally according to the QS World University Rankings by the subject Art and Design.<ref>{{Cite web |title=World University Rankings for Art & Design 2024 |url=https://www.topuniversities.com/university-subject-rankings/art-design |website=Top Universities}}</ref>

===Schools===
[[File:Pratt institute school of architecture facade.jpg|thumb|Higgins Hall main façade of the [[Pratt Institute School of Architecture|School of Architecture]]]]
Pratt Institute is divided into 6 schools and more than 28 departments and divisions offering over 22 undergraduate majors and 25 graduate majors.
The schools include:
* [[Pratt Institute School of Architecture|School of Architecture]]
* School of Art
* School of Design
* School of Liberal Arts and Sciences
* [[Pratt Institute School of Information|School of Information]] (Pratt has the oldest continuously accredited library-science program in the United States.)<ref>{{Cite web |title=About the School of Information |url=https://www.pratt.edu/information/about-the-school-of-information/history/}}</ref>
* School of Continuing and Professional Studies<ref name="Homepage">{{Cite web |title=Homepage |url=https://www.pratt.edu/continuing-and-professional-studies/ |access-date=2025-06-03 |website=Continuing and Professional Studies |language=en-us}}</ref>

Former schools include:
* School of Domestic Arts and Sciences
* School of Engineering

===Joint degree programs===
Pratt Institute offers the following joint degree programs:<ref>{{cite web
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 | publisher =Brooklyn Law School
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* J.D./Master in City and Regional Planning: [[Brooklyn Law School]] and Pratt Institute jointly sponsor a program leading to the degrees of Juris Doctor (J.D.) and [[Master of Science]] (M.S.) in City and Regional Planning.

===Accreditation===
Pratt Institute is [[Higher education accreditation in the United States|accredited]] by the [[Middle States Commission on Higher Education]] and is authorized to award academic degrees by the [[State of New York]], following guidelines established by the [[New York State Department of Education]].<ref name="accreditation">{{Cite web |url=http://www.pratt.edu/about_pratt/mission_and_governance/the_presidents_office/accreditation/ |title=About Pratt {{!}} Mission and Governance {{!}} Message from the President {{!}} Pratt Accreditation<!-- Bot generated title --> |access-date=2013-06-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131023160803/http://www.pratt.edu/about_pratt/mission_and_governance/the_presidents_office/accreditation/ |archive-date=2013-10-23 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

The [[Bachelor of Architecture]] degree and the [[Master of Architecture]] degree at the School of Architecture are accredited by the [[National Architectural Accrediting Board]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.naab.org/|title=National Architectural Accrediting Board|accessdate=8 July 2023|archive-date=14 July 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230714100500/https://www.naab.org/|url-status=live}}</ref> The undergraduate [[Interior design education|interior design]] program is accredited by the [[Council for Interior Design Accreditation]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.accredit-id.org/accredited-programs|title=Accredited Programs|website=CIDA|access-date=2022-01-07|archive-date=2022-01-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220107195632/https://www.accredit-id.org/accredited-programs|url-status=live}}</ref>

Graduate programs in [[library and information science]], [[art therapy]], and [[art education]] are all accredited by the Committee on Accreditation of the American Library Association, Education Approval Board of the American Art Therapy Association, and RATE respectively.<ref name="accreditation" /> The School of Art and Design is part of the [[Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.aicad.org/schools/pratt-institute/|title=Pratt Institute|accessdate=8 July 2023|archive-date=29 November 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231129063341/https://www.aicad.org/schools/pratt-institute/|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Demographics===
{|  style="text-align:center; float:right; margin-left:1em; margin:auto;"  class="wikitable"
|+ ''Ethnic composition of undergraduates 2018–19''<ref name="Statistics">{{cite web|url=https://www.pratt.edu/admissions/request-information/statistics/|title=Statistics|website=Pratt Institute|access-date=May 9, 2020|archive-date=April 12, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190412133031/https://www.pratt.edu/admissions/request-information/statistics/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
! !! Undergrads !!U.S. Census<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/US/PST045219 |title=Quick Facts: Race and Hispanic Origin, Population Estimates July 1, 2019 |access-date=May 9, 2020 |publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]] |archive-date=December 30, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191230202153/https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/US/PST045219 |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
! [[White people|White]] (non-Hispanic)
| 38% || 58.4%
|-
! [[African Americans|African-American]]
| 4% || 13.7%
|-
! [[Asian American]]
| 13% || 6.4%
|-
! [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]]
| 0% || 1.3%
|-
! [[Hispanics in the United States|Hispanic American]] (of any race)
| 9% || 19.5%
|-
! Two or more races, non-Hispanic
| 3% || 3.1%
|-
! [[International students]]
| 32% || (N/A)
|-
! Unknown
| 1% || (N/A)
|}
Pratt Institute students, numbering 3,435 undergraduates and 1,381 graduate students in Fall 2019, come from 86 countries and 48 states.<ref name="Statistics" /> Women represent 71% of undergraduates and 74% of graduate students.<ref name="Statistics" />

==Brooklyn campus==
[[File:Pratt cannon jeh.jpg|thumb|Cannon Court]]
[[File:Pratt Main sunny square jeh.jpg|thumb|Main Building as viewed from Rose Garden]]

Pratt Institute's main campus is located on a historic, esteemed,<ref name="archdigest">{{Cite web|url=https://www.architecturaldigest.com/gallery/college-campus-architecture|title=15 College Campuses with the Best Architecture|date=September 1, 2011|website=Architectural Digest|access-date=January 7, 2022|archive-date=January 7, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220107195626/https://www.architecturaldigest.com/gallery/college-campus-architecture|url-status=live}}</ref> enclosed {{convert|25|acre|m2|adj=on}} campus located in the [[Clinton Hill, Brooklyn|Clinton Hill]] neighborhood in Brooklyn, 2 miles from [[Downtown Brooklyn]] and 3 miles from [[Lower Manhattan]]. [[Midtown Manhattan]] is just 5 miles from the campus.

The campus is accessible by two public entrances, both of which close in the evening hours and are guarded by security 24 hours a day. The main gate located at Willoughby Avenue on the north side of campus is accessible for pedestrians and vehicles while the secondary pedestrian-only gate located at the corner of Hall Street and DeKalb Avenue at the southwest part of campus is convenient for commuters and for students to get to Higgins Hall. In addition, there are three other swipe card access gates available only for student use. The campus is very park-like and fully landscaped and provides a stark contrast to the urban neighborhood that surrounds the school.

The four main areas of the campus include the Library Rose Garden, Cannon Court, Newman Mall and Amphitheater, and the Engineering Quad:
* The historically significant Rose Garden is located directly north of the library and was built as a part of the library acting as a public park. At the center of the garden is a 1926 [[World War I]] memorial to commemorate the men and women of Pratt Institute in the World War.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/prattinstitutelibraries/5915827063/|title=[Flagpole&#93;&#124;Flickr – Condivisione di foto!<!-- Bot generated title -->|accessdate=8 July 2023}}</ref>
* The Cannon Court is located directly south of the library and serves as the main entrance from the Hall Street gate. A central feature of the court is a large bronze [[Spanish Empire|Spanish]] cannon from 1720 originally from [[Seville]], Spain, and brought to Pratt from [[Morro Castle (Havana)|Morro Castle]] in [[Havana|Havana, Cuba]] in 1899.<ref name="campus" /> Trees and meandering pathways lead to the library and Newman Mall.
* The Newman Mall takes up the center of the campus with many of the academic buildings alongside the mall. The mall is characterized by brick pathways with mature trees lining a central lawn. To the north of the mall is a small amphitheater, designed by [[Skidmore, Owings and Merrill]].<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/06/02/garden/pratt-at-its-centennial-to-get-a-mall.html | work=The New York Times | first=Suzanne | last=Slesin | title=Pratt, at Its Centennial, to Get a Mall | date=2 June 1988}}</ref>
* The Engineering Quadrangle, which is recognized as a historic landmark, is located north of the Newman Mall toward the eastern side of campus with the Chemistry, Machinery, and Engineering buildings enclosing the quad which has terraced landscaping and gardens with many mature trees.

The entire campus is open to the public as park space during the daytime. Throughout the campus, many contemporary sculptures fill the gardens and landscape, making the campus home to the largest sculpture park in New York City.<ref name="gridskipper" /> The Pratt Sculpture Park, founded in 1999, is the largest contemporary sculpture park in New York City and includes more than 40 pieces at any given time installed across the 25-acre campus in Brooklyn. Some of the artists who have loaned their work to the park include Shin Sang Ho, Mark di Suvero, Donald Lipski, Tom Otterness, Richard Serra, Takashi Soga, Gunnar Theel, and Allan Wexler.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.pratt.edu/about_pratt/visit_pratt/tour_the_campus/sculpture_park/ |title=About Pratt {{!}} Visit Pratt {{!}} Tour the Campus {{!}} Sculpture Park<!-- Bot generated title --> |access-date=2013-06-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130913050548/http://www.pratt.edu/about_pratt/visit_pratt/tour_the_campus/sculpture_park/ |archive-date=2013-09-13 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Pratt Sculpture Park |url=http://gridskipper.com/archives/entries/57510/57510.php#selection-581.0-581.20 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130628042722/http://gridskipper.com/archives/entries/57510/57510.php#selection-581.0-581.20 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2013-06-28|access-date=June 28, 2006}}</ref>

===List of sculptures on campus===
Sources:<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.pratt.edu/uploads/sculpturepark_brochure.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190321214338/https://www.pratt.edu/uploads/sculpturepark_brochure.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=March 21, 2019 |title=Sculpture Park Guide |publisher=Pratt Institute }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://libguides.pratt.edu/sculpture-park |title=PRATT INSTITUTE SCULPTURE PARK LIBGUIDE |publisher=Pratt Institute}}</ref>
{|  class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
|-
!Displayed since
!Name of sculpture
!Artist
|-
|2016
|La Méditerranée
|[[Philippe Anthonioz]]
|-
|1981
|Accord Final
|[[Arman]]
|-
|1999
|Picnic Table
|[[Siah Armajani]]
|-
|1993
|Leaf
| rowspan="2" |[[Ilan Averbuch]]
|-
|2005
|The Book of Stone and Steel
|-
|2011
|Maze 1
|[[Phyllis Baker Hammond]]
|-
|1995
|Image 95
|[[Masaru Bando]]
|-
|2014
|Whispering Bench— Texting,
|[[Cathey Billian]]
|-
|1995
|Wind Reeds
|[[Bill & Mary Buchen]]
|-
|2007
|Seven of Hearts
| rowspan="2" |[[Noël Copeland]]
|-
|2009
|Brooklyn Blooms
|-
|2013
|Half Story Mountain
|[[Grayson Cox]]
|-
|2002
|Jive
|[[Mark di Suvero]]
|-
|2013
|Learning
|[[Anne Gillen]]
|-
|1988–1993
|Leucantha,
|Philip Grausman
|-
|2004
|Epistrophy, Straight No Chaser, Round Midnight
|Richard Heinrich
|-
|2005
|Skylark
|David Henderson
|-
|2009
|Silo
|[[Tomasz Jan Groza]]
|-
|2001
|Fourth Dimension
|[[Ann Jon]]
|-
|2008
|Segmented Flower Form Part 1
|[[Mary Judge]]
|-
|2011
|24M
|[[Michael Kalish]]
|-
|2001
|Lions at the Gate
|[[Wendy Klemperer]]
|-
|1990–1999
|6 Copper Spheres
|[[Grace Knowlton]]
|-
|2003
|Saratoga Winter
|[[Harry E. Leigh]]
|-
|1996
|F.R.S.B.
|[[Donald Lipski]]
|-
|2000
|Uplifting
|[[Sandy Macleod]]
|-
|1979
|Untitled
| rowspan="4" |[[Michael Malpass]]
|-
|1988
|Zinnia
|-
|1979
|Tool Ball
|-
|1986
|Trilogy (square)
|-
|2012
|Ascent
|[[Jackson Martin]]
|-
|2008–2009
|Waiting for Coyote
|[[Nao Matsumoto]]
|-
|1996
|Manhole Covers
|[[Brad Michael McCallum]]
|-
|2007
|Pratt Pillows
|[[Mark Mennin]]
|-
|2007
|Untitled
|[[Sung Ha No]]
|-
|Date unknown
|Promise
| rowspan="2" |[[Neil Noland]]
|-
|Date unknown
|Spinoff
|-
|2011
|Sun
|[[Avital Oz]]
|-
|2006
|Object/Product
|[[Mark Parsons]]
|-
|2012
|Double Sbalzo
|[[Beverly Pepper]]
|-
|2006
|Ecstasy
|[[Nova Mihai Popa]]
|-
|2004
|Aerated Rectangles
| rowspan="2" |[[Salvatore M. Romano]]
|-
|2009–2010
|Five Equal Volumes
|-
|Date unknown
|Untitled
|[[Tony Rosenthal]]
|-
|2007
|Four Floating Disks
|[[G.A. Ruda]]
|-
|2004
|Particle/Wave,Time/Space Continuum
|[[Karl Saliter]]
|-
|2006
|Dream of Africa
|[[Shin Sang-ho|Shin Sang-Ho]]
|-
|2012
|Scarce of Fishing
|[[Arden Scott]]
|-
|1990
|Chair
|[[Alan Siegel]]
|-
|2014
|Intersections: Gardens #4 #5 #6 #7 #8 #9
|[[Arlene Slavin]]
|-
|2007
|Block 700
|[[Sean Slemon]]
|-
|2001
|Guardian
| rowspan="3" |[[Leon Polk Smith|Leon Smith]]
|-
|2004
|Red Cabinet
|-
|2002
|Triangle
|-
|2006
|Black E.C. Tower
|[[Kenneth Snelson]]
|-
|2003
|Silent Beam
|[[Takashi Soga]]
|-
|2000
|Siting on His Laurels
|[[Dana L. Stewart]]
|-
|Date Unknown
|Bench
|[[George Sugarman]]
|-
|Date Unknown
|Right Angles
|[[Gunnar Theel]]
|-
|2012
|Brickhead: Yemanga
|[[James Tyler (musician)|James Tyler]]
|-
|Date Unknown
|Three Cement Goats
|Unknown Artist
|-
|2002
|Mier
| rowspan="3" |[[Boaz Vaadia]]
|-
|2002
|Sara
|-
|2002
|Rebecca
|-
|2006
|Ode to Miles Davis
| rowspan="2" |[[Hans Van de Bovenkamp]]
|-
|1974
|Undulation
|-
|2009
|The End Justifies the Means, Justifies the End ...
|[[Martha Walter|Martha Walker]]
|-
|2012
|Pratt Desk
|[[Allan Wexler]]
|-
|1979
|Swirl
| rowspan="3" |[[Jack Youngerman]]
|-
|1981
|Wave
|-
|1971
|Blade
|-
|2006
|Welcome II
|[[Raphael Zollinger]]
|-
|2012
|Recall
|[[Jean Shin]]
|}

==Buildings==
Pratt is home to a diverse collection of buildings composed of several architectural styles. Most of the buildings at the school were built before [[World War II]] in the style of [[Romanesque Revival]], [[Victorian architecture|Victorian]], and [[Neoclassical architecture|Neoclassical]] styles and were designed by prominent nineteenth and twentieth-century architects. After the war, Pratt began building more [[contemporary architecture|contemporary]] styled buildings.

In 2011, ''[[Architectural Digest]]'' named Pratt as being one of the top ten most architecturally significant college campuses in the country, for its seamless collection of buildings ranging from since the 1800s.<ref name="archdigest" />

The Main Building, East Hall Building, and Student Union are all located adjacent to one another and make up a complex of the original buildings, all built specifically for the Institute in 1887:
* Located in the north-central part of campus, the Main Building is a six-story [[Romanesque Revival]] brick building designed by [[Lamb and Rich]] and was the first building to open at the school.<ref name="scup" /> The roof features an iconic clock tower, which overlooks the Rose Garden. The building houses administrative offices, classrooms, and art studios for the Arts Department of the School of Art and Design. In February 2013 a fire erupted throughout the top floors of the building, destroying much of the interior structure and students' work.<ref>{{cite web|title=Huge fire tears through Pratt Institute building|url=https://abc7ny.com/archive/8994041/|publisher=WABC TV|access-date=15 February 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130219015137/http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news%2Flocal%2Fnew_york&id=8994041|archive-date=19 February 2013|url-status=live}}</ref>
* East Hall is located directly behind Main Hall and faces Grand Walk. Designed by William Windrim, a main feature of the brick building is the large smokestack which served the institute's power generation plant. Within the Hall are a variety of services for students including Career Services, Student Activities, International Student Affairs, and the Pratt Chapel. Located in the lower level of the building is Pratt's continuously operating, privately owned, steam-powered electrical generating plant built originally to serve the power needs of the school. In 1977 the facility was recognized by the [[ASME|American Society of Mechanical Engineers]] and named a [[List of Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmarks|National Mechanical Engineering Landmark]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.asme.org/getmedia/745d7e61-1b79-40cc-847e-e2c0afaeebf6/25-Pratt-Institute-Power-Plant.aspx |title=Archived copy |access-date=2013-06-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305012055/https://www.asme.org/getmedia/745d7e61-1b79-40cc-847e-e2c0afaeebf6/25-Pratt-Institute-Power-Plant.aspx |archive-date=2016-03-05 |url-status=dead}}</ref> As part of its goal of reducing emissions 40 percent by 2040, Pratt plans to transition its steam-powered electrical generating plant away from burning natural gas or heavy oil.<ref name="Burns Engineering 2023 h581">{{cite press release | title=Burns Undertakes Upgrades to Historic Pratt Institute Steam System | website=Burns Engineering | date=April 21, 2023 | url=https://www.burns-group.com/news-and-events-item/burns-undertakes-upgrades-to-historic-pratt-institute-steam-system/ | access-date=February 22, 2024 | archive-date=February 21, 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240221201907/https://www.burns-group.com/news-and-events-item/burns-undertakes-upgrades-to-historic-pratt-institute-steam-system/ | url-status=live }}</ref> In 2023 Pratt Institute removed two Combustion Engineering water tube boilers,
And, replaced these boilers with two Cleaver Brooks fire tube boilers.https://www.jrmcm.com/project/pratt-institute/

* The Student Union, by architect [[William Tubby]], was originally built as the Trade School building but soon after completion was completely remodeled as the Student Union complete with a gymnasium and swimming pool. In 1982 the building was renovated again as the new Student Union.<ref name="campus" /> All three buildings wrap around an interior courtyard that connects out to the Newman Mall and Library Rose Garden. The centerpiece of the courtyard is a 17th-century [[Italy|Italian]] marble well-head fountain purchased by the Pratt family in 1900. Renovated once more in the summer of 2018, the Student Union is a place for the Pratt community to gather, study, relax, and innovate.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Matiz Architecture and Design |url=https://www.mad-nyc.com/projects/student-union |access-date=2025-01-06 |website=www.mad-nyc.com}}</ref>

Other structures include:
* South Hall, located along Reyerson Walk to the direct south of Main Building, was finished in 1892 by [[William Tubby]] and was built as the Pratt High School.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/prattinstitutelibraries/5915818963/in/photostream/|title=[Pratt Institute High School&#93;&#124;Flickr – Condivisione di foto!<!-- Bot generated title -->|accessdate=8 July 2023}}</ref> When the high school closed near the turn-of-the-century, the building was used for the School of Domestic Arts and Sciences. The building is now home to classrooms, studios, and offices for programs in the Department of Fine Arts, part of the School of Art and Design.
* [[Pratt Institute Libraries|Pratt Institute Library]], which was opened in 1888 to serve students and the general public as well, became the first free Public Library in Brooklyn. The architect of the building was [[William Tubby]] of Brooklyn. The interior in the building was done by the [[Tiffany Glass Company|Tiffany Glass and Decorating Company]].
* The Chemistry, Machinery, and Engineering Buildings are located across from Grand Walk and East Building, which are clustered around the Engineering Quad's lawn and gardens. They were built in phases between 1908 and 1928 and designed by architecture firm [[Howells & Stokes]].<ref name="scup" /> These buildings originally housed courses for Pratt's School of Engineering until it was dismantled in 1993. The machinery building houses, a Print lab, Metal Shop, Ceramics Studios and WoodShop. The second floor of the Engineering building now houses Pratt's largest computer lab on campus, with several classrooms of [[Macintosh|Mac]] and [[Microsoft Windows|PC]] workstations and a collection of scanners, printers, and [[plotter]]s. The basement houses Pratt's Material Lab and Center for Sustainable Design Strategies.
* The school's auditorium, Memorial Hall, was built in 1927 with [[John Mead Howells]] serving as the architect. It is located across from the Rose Garden along Reyerson Walk, between the Main Building and North Hall.
* Built as part of the [[urban renewal]] project led by [[Robert Moses]], North Hall is located directly north of Memorial Hall and was designed by [[McKim, Mead, and White]] in 1958.<ref name="campus" /> The building houses Pratt's Main cafeteria and the school's bank. Classrooms for the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences are located on the upper levels of the building.
* DeKalb Hall and the Information Science Center were also designed by McKim, Mead, and White earlier in 1955. They originally served as men's and women's dormitories respectively until Pratt acquired Willoughby Hall.<ref name="campus" /> After the acquisition of Willoughby, the buildings were remodeled to serve classroom and administrative needs. DeKalb Hall, located to the far west of campus and south of the Library and Cannon Court, is home to administrative offices. The Information Science Center is also located to the far west of campus, but north of the Library and Rose Garden, which was home to the [[Pratt Institute School of Information|School of Information]].
* The Juliana Curran Terian Design Center is made up of two separate wings, Steuben Hall to the east and Pratt Studios west, which hold all of Pratt's design programs. Located at the southern edge of the campus between Pantas Hall and the Athletics and Recreation Center, this building is home to the Interior Design, Industrial Design, Communication Design, and Fashion Design Departments, as well as the [https://commons.pratt.edu/givetake/ givetake art supply recycling initiative]. At the center of the building, there is a small courtyard. Originally the center was two separate buildings that were acquired by Pratt in 1962 and 1970, respectively.<ref name="scup" /> The buildings were originally built around the turn-of-the-century and served as factories until Pratt acquired them. A new glass and metal entry pavilion, named in honor of architecture alumni and donor Juliana Curran Terian, was constructed in 2007<ref name="terian">{{Cite web|url=https://news.pratt.edu/article/juliana_curran_terian_design_center_pavilion_named_winner_of_2010_building_/|title=Juliana Curran Terian Design Center Pavilion Named Winner of 2010 Building Brooklyn Award &#124; Pratt Institute|website=News &#124; Pratt Institute|date=6 June 2022|access-date=7 January 2022|archive-date=7 January 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220107195630/https://news.pratt.edu/article/juliana_curran_terian_design_center_pavilion_named_winner_of_2010_building_/|url-status=live}}</ref> and was designed to the two original, separate, brick buildings. The lead architect for the project was the School of Architecture's Dean, Thomas Hanrahan.<ref name="terian" />
* Myrtle Hall is Pratt's newest building, having opened in 2010. The building, located one block north of campus, was designed by Pratt Institute School of Architecture alumnus Jack Esterson AIA of the New York City architecture and engineering firm WASA/Studio A, and has achieved LEED Gold Certification. The building houses Student Services ([[registrar (education)|registrar]], [[bursar]], and [[Student financial aid (United States)|financial aid]]), Admissions, the Pratt Center for Community Development, and the Digital Art Center.
* The [[Caroline Ladd Pratt House]] is owned by the school. It is used as the college president's mansion and for gala events.<ref>{{cite web | title=Pratt Institute—Caroline Ladd Pratt House | url=http://www.nyc-arts.org/venues/542/pratt-institute-caroline-ladd-pratt-house | access-date=12 September 2012 | archive-date=13 September 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240913230851/https://www.nyc-arts.org/organizations/pratt-institute-caroline-ladd-pratt-house-2/ | url-status=live }}</ref> It was completed in 1898 and designed by architects [[Babb, Cook, and Willard]] for [[Frederic B. Pratt]], the institute's third president, the son of Charles Pratt (and family). It is located four blocks west of the school on Clinton Avenue, near the other Pratt family mansions.
* Higgins Hall, located one block south of the main campus, houses the entire School of Architecture with the exception of Construction Management programs. The historic [[Romanesque Revival]] landmark building with a contemporary center wing houses the school's Administrative Offices, computer labs, student classrooms, laboratories, a lecture hall, a small café, and the Hazel and Robert H. Siegel Gallery. The building was originally built for the prestigious [[Adelphi University|Adelphi Academy]], now [[Adelphi University]] in phases from 1868 through 1890 by Mundell and Teckritz and [[Charles C. Haight]]. Charles Pratt also partially funded the construction of the building as part of his philanthropic efforts.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.nyc.gov/html/lpc/downloads/pdf/reports/CLINTON_HILL_HISTORIC_DISTRICT.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2013-06-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140119170748/http://www.nyc.gov/html/lpc/downloads/pdf/reports/CLINTON_HILL_HISTORIC_DISTRICT.pdf |archive-date=2014-01-19 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The building was given to Pratt Institute in 1965 by the wife of John Higgins, architect and alumni of Adelphi Academy. The School of Architecture was relocated here.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/34900073@N07/5915817301/|title=[Higgins Hall&#93;&#124;Flickr – Condivisione di foto!<!-- Bot generated title -->|accessdate=8 July 2023}}</ref> In 1996, the building experienced a major fire, destroying the center wing of the building and severely damaging the northern and southern wings.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/07/28/nyregion/pratt-s-dream-is-thwarted-by-a-fire.html |work=The New York Times |first=Somini |last=Sengupta |title=Pratt's Dream Is Thwarted By a Fire |date=28 July 1996 |access-date=12 February 2017 |archive-date=6 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306220936/http://www.nytimes.com/1996/07/28/nyregion/pratt-s-dream-is-thwarted-by-a-fire.html |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2005, the school replaced the center wing with a new sleek and contemporary glass structure, which linked historic brick northern and southern wings designed by [[Steven Holl]], and incorporated complementary contrast to the original essence.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.stevenholl.com/project-detail.php?type=educational&id=43 |title=Steven Holl Architects<!-- Bot generated title --> |access-date=2013-06-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151114213233/http://www.stevenholl.com/project-detail.php?type=educational&id=43 |archive-date=2015-11-14 |url-status=dead}}</ref> As part of the rebuilding of Higgins Hall, Rogers Marvel Architects restored and renovated the original nineteenth-century wings to their former glory.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.rogersmarvel.com/projects/Pratt/|title=Pratt Institute School of Architecture &#124; Rogers Marvel Architects|website=www.rogersmarvel.com|access-date=2013-06-29|archive-date=2024-09-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240913230943/http://www.rogersmarvel.com/projects/Pratt/|url-status=live}}</ref>

<gallery>
File:Pratt library sunny jeh.jpg|Library
File:Pratt Memorial Hall jeh.jpg|Memorial Hall
File:Pratt Inst powerhouse sun jeh.jpg|East Hall
File:Pratt Engineering Bldg rainy jeh.jpg|Engineering Building
File:Pratt Chemistry bldg rainy jeh.jpg|Chemistry Building
</gallery>

===Historic sites===

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| caption      = The Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY
| location     = Roughly bounded by Hall St., Dekalb Ave., Willoughby St., and Emerson Pl., [[Brooklyn, New York]]
| locmapin     = New York City#New York#USA
| architect    = Multiple
| architecture = Late 19th And 20th Century Revivals, Renaissance, Romanesque
| added        = March 23, 2005
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Several Pratt Institute's buildings and landscapes are historically significant. The Pratt Institute Historic District is a national [[Historic district (United States)|historic district]] that comprises 10 contributing buildings built between 1885 and 1936. Several buildings are recognized as being [[List of New York City Designated Landmarks in Brooklyn|New York City Designated Landmarks]]. It was listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] in 2005<ref name="nris" /><ref name=nrhpdoc>{{cite report|type=none|url=https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75318479 |title=National Register of Historic Places Registration: New York SP Pratt Institute Historic District|publisher=National Archives and Records Administration |author= Kathleen LaFrank|date= March 1990| access-date=November 3, 2025 }} ({{NationalArchivesNote}})</ref> and was awarded the Getty Foundation Campus Heritage Grant.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.getty.edu/news/press/center/heritage_release.html|title=Campus Heritage Grants 2005 (Getty Press Release)<!-- Bot generated title -->|accessdate=8 July 2023|archive-date=19 March 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200319093121/https://www.getty.edu/news/press/center/heritage_release.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> Two buildings outside the historic district, Higgins Hall and the [[Caroline Ladd Pratt House]] are also listed on the historic register as being a part of the [[Clinton Hill Historic District]]. The buildings and structures listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places for their architectural or historical significance are:<ref name="scup" />
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* [[Caroline Ladd Pratt House]]
* Chemistry Building
* Children's Portico
* East Hall
* Engineering Building
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* Engineering Quadrangle
* Higgins Hall
* Machinery Building
* Main Building
* Main Building Courtyard
* Memorial Hall
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* Pratt Institute Library
* Pratt Institute Library Rose Garden
* South Hall
* Student Union
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===Residence halls===
Pratt, a residential campus, offers seven different residence options for its students. All residence hall students are provided with a bed (twin extra-long), a desk, a chair, and a dresser. Students residing in a dorm without in-unit kitchens are required to be on a mandatory meal plan (Stabile, Emerson, ELJ, and Pantas), while those with in-unit kitchens can sign up for an optional meal plan (Willoughby and Grand Avenue). Emerson Place, Leo J. Pantas Hall, and Vincent A. Stabile Hall are the primary freshman dorms. In total, 51 percent of undergraduate students reside on campus while 92 percent of incoming freshmen students reside on campus.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.pratt.edu/admissions/request_information/facts_and_figures/|title=Welcome to Admissions &#124; Request Information &#124; Facts and Figures<!-- Bot generated title -->|accessdate=8 July 2023|archive-date=12 March 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140312014835/http://www.pratt.edu/admissions/request_information/facts_and_figures/|url-status=dead}}</ref> Pratt offers the following residence halls for students to choose from:
* Esther Lloyd-Jones Hall is named for a trendsetter in modern American higher education.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/cac/sahp/pdfs/lloydjones.pdf |title=Bowling Green State University Brochure |access-date=2010-05-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140119170749/http://www2.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/cac/sahp/pdfs/lloydjones.pdf |archive-date=2014-01-19 |url-status=dead}}</ref> The building was originally a private apartment building built in 1921 but was acquired by Pratt in 1964 as used for dormitories. ELJ accommodates students in single and double rooms in apartment-style accommodations. ELJ is occupied primarily by upperclassmen continuing students.
* Emerson Hall is the newest dorm on the Pratt campus, opening in Fall 2019. It was built specifically to be a freshman dorm. It was collaboratively designed by CannonDesign and Hanrahan Meyers Architects to encourage interaction.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-06-06 |title=Pratt Opens Emerson Place Residence, an Innovative New Home for First-Year Students |url=https://www.pratt.edu/news/pratt-opens-emerson-place-residence-an-innovative-new-home-for-first-year-s/ |access-date=2022-10-04 |publisher=Pratt Institute |language=en-us |archive-date=2022-10-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221004145909/https://www.pratt.edu/news/pratt-opens-emerson-place-residence-an-innovative-new-home-for-first-year-s/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The dorm is off campus, across the street from the Film and Video Building. The dorm contains double rooms, with several individual bathrooms and separate, individual shower rooms on each floor to be shared by those inhabiting each floor. Each floor also contains a large central common space with a small kitchen on each floor.
* Leo J. Pantas Hall was opened in 1987 and designed by [[Skidmore, Owings and Merrill]] and sits centrally located on campus. Students live in four-person suites, which consist of two double rooms (two people in each double room), and each suite has its bathroom. Suites are single-sex, but floors are co-ed. The building boasts a work/study rooms and communal lounges. The building was designed in brick with a clock tower, echoing the style of the original 1887 Main Building. Pantas is primarily a freshman residence hall.
[[File:Pratt houses Steuben St jeh.jpg|thumb|The historic Pratt Townhouses]]
* Vincent A. Stabile Hall opened in the Fall of 1999 and designed by Pasanella+Klein, Stolzman+Berg Architects. Named for the donor and graduate of the Engineering School, it was designed for new undergraduate students. It houses 240 students in four-person suites. Each suite consists of two double rooms with a shared bath. There are [[kitchenette]]s located on each floor. Stabile is primarily a freshman residence hall.
* The Pratt Townhouses are historic landmarks that were originally constructed from 1901 to 1910 in the colonial revival style to serve as faculty housing. The townhomes were designed by Hobart C. Walker. After being neglected for several years, Pratt renovated the townhouses to be used by upperclassmen. Each unit consists of six single rooms spread across three stories, a full kitchen, living room, parlor, basement, and shared backyard.
* Willoughby Hall is a former private apartment building built as part of [[Robert Moses]]' urban renewal projects surrounding Pratt, and is the largest residence hall. Built in 1957 by architect [[John Mead Howells]], the 16-story building accommodates 800 undergraduate men and women. In addition to the standard furniture, all apartments have a kitchen table, stove, and refrigerator. All students are assigned to double, triple, or single spaces. The converted apartments consist of at least one double or triple that occupies the former living-room space of the apartment. The number of students residing in a given apartment ranges from two to six students, depending upon the size of the converted apartment—studio, one, two, or three bedrooms.
* Grand Avenue Residence is home to new and continuing graduate students. The building can accommodate 50 students in efficiency apartments (double and single) and private single rooms within two- and three-bedroom apartments. A double-efficiency apartment is two students sharing a one-room apartment (with a kitchen and bath). A single-efficiency apartment is one student in a private one-room apartment with a kitchen and bath. A shared single is two or more students, each with a private bedroom, sharing a kitchen, bath, and living room. The building is located one block from campus. Each living room is furnished with a sofa, club chair, coffee table, kitchen table, and chairs.

===Transportation===
[[File:Clinton–Washington Avenues IND Crosstown 1296.JPG|thumb|left|The [[Clinton-Washington Avenues (IND Crosstown Line)|Clinton-Washington Avenues]] subway station of the {{NYCS trains|Crosstown}} is close to Pratt's Brooklyn campus]]

Pratt does not provide any official sponsored transportation options for its students, but there are several public transportation options located directly off Pratt's main campus.

The school is served by [[Metropolitan Transportation Authority|MTA]] [[New York City Bus]] routes with the {{NYC bus link|B38}} bus route servicing the campus to the south with stations along DeKalb and Lafayette Avenues and the {{NYC bus link|B54}} bus route serving the area north of the campus along Myrtle Avenue.<ref>{{Cite NYC bus map|B}}</ref> In addition, the [[New York City Subway]]'s {{NYCS trains|Crosstown}} has one station located at the intersection of Washington and Lafayette Avenues and another located at the intersection of Classon and Lafayette Avenues. The [[Clinton–Washington Avenues (IND Crosstown Line)|Clinton–Washington Avenues]] station ([[IND Crosstown Line]]) is located directly across the street from Higgins Hall. The [[Classon Avenue station]] ([[IND Crosstown Line]]) is located one block south of the southeast corner of campus. In addition, the {{NYCS trains|Fulton local day}} has an entrance to [[Clinton–Washington Avenues (IND Fulton Street Line)|Clinton–Washington Avenues]] station ([[IND Fulton Street Line]]) four blocks south of the Hall Gate entrance and three blocks south of Higgins Hall.<ref>{{NYCS const|map}}</ref>

New York City's public bike-share program, [[Citi Bike]], has stations nearby at Lafayette Avenue and Saint James Place; at Hall Street and Willoughby Avenue; and Emerson Place and Myrtle Avenue.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.citibikenyc.com/stations|title=Citi Bike Stations|accessdate=8 July 2023|archive-date=25 March 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150325114800/https://www.citibikenyc.com/stations|url-status=dead}}</ref>

The [[Long Island Rail Road]] at [[Atlantic Terminal]], is located a short walk from the campus. Pratt participates in [[New Jersey Transit|New Jersey Transit's]] University Partnership Program where students can receive a twenty-five percent discount on monthly passes based out of [[Pennsylvania Station (New York City)|Penn Station]] in Manhattan.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.njtransit.com/ti/ti_servlet.srv?hdnPageAction=StudentPassTo|title=New Jersey Transit<!-- Bot generated title -->|accessdate=8 July 2023|archive-date=18 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190418050712/https://www.njtransit.com/ti/ti_servlet.srv?hdnPageAction=StudentPassTo|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Pratt Manhattan==
[[File:138-146 West 14th Street.jpg|thumb|Pratt Manhattan]]

The Pratt Manhattan center, located at 144 West 14th Street, between 6th and 7th Avenue, is home to associate degrees programs, a bachelor's degree program, and graduate programs. The School of Continuing and Professional Studies also offers non-credit courses and certificate programs.<ref name="Homepage"/> This seven-story historic building was acquired by Pratt in 2000. The institute restored the building's exterior to its original facade highlighting its decorative architectural and design elements and renovated the interior to feature its high ceilings and wood beams.

In 1974, the New York Phoenix School of Design, formerly the [[New York School of Applied Design for Women]] and the [[Phoenix Art Institute]], merged with the Pratt Institute to form the [[Pratt-New York Phoenix School of Design]], which offered three-year certificate programs in art and design at least into the late 1970s. It is located in the landmark [[New York School of Applied Design]] Building at 160 Lexington Avenue, at the northwest corner of Lexington and 30th Street.<ref name="Neighborhood Preservation">{{cite web |url=http://www.neighborhoodpreservationcenter.org/db/bb_files/77PRATT-NYPHOENIXSCH.pdf |title=Pratt-Phoenix School of Design |website=Neighborhood Preservation Center |access-date=February 17, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100311041047/http://www.neighborhoodpreservationcenter.org/db/bb_files/77PRATT-NYPHOENIXSCH.pdf |archive-date=March 11, 2010 |url-status=dead }}</ref> At this time, Manhattan had long been the epicenter of publishing design during the latter-twentieth century. This new commercial-art-dedicated satellite was modeled to apply intensely concentrated vocational training in graphic design, illustration, package design, and textile design. Its faculty was largely composed of Manhattan's working professionals. Magazines, books, music albums, movie posters, print and television advertisements, and packaging for all forms of retail products were the intended goals for its graduates, as well as Manhattan's omnipresent fashion industry. In addition, the below-ground space in the school was converted into a state-of-the-art printmaking facility, teaching artist-created lithography, silk screening, and engraving.

==Student life==

=== Clubs and student organizations ===
As of October 2022, Pratt is home to 122 clubs with a wide range of focuses.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Student Involvement |url=https://www.pratt.edu/student-life/student-involvement/ |access-date=2022-10-04 |website=Pratt |language=en-us |archive-date=2022-10-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221004183713/https://www.pratt.edu/student-life/student-involvement/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Some of these clubs include the Pratt Photo League, the Latinx Student Alliance, the Pratt Institute Botanical Society, Aura Dance Crew, and the Students for Socialist Revolution.<ref>{{Cite web |title=- Pratt Institute |url=https://pratt.campuslabs.com/engage/organizations |access-date=2022-10-04 |website=pratt.campuslabs.com |archive-date=2022-10-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221004183710/https://pratt.campuslabs.com/engage/organizations |url-status=live }}</ref> Clubs at Pratt don't just hold meetings, but also host on-campus events and arrange exhibitions of club members' work.

===Student media===
Pratt has several student media groups including a Film Club.
* ''The Prattler'' is Pratt's quarterly student magazine/newspaper, established in 1940.
* ''Static Fish'', a comic book publication established over 20 years ago.
* ''Ubiquitous'' is Pratt's literary and arts magazine, published twice a year with reading events on campus per semester, and also maintains a blog.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.pratt.edu/student_life/activities/student_activities/organizations_and_clubs/clubs_media/ |title=Pratt Institute Student Media Organizations |access-date=2010-11-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130527075135/http://www.pratt.edu/student_life/activities/student_activities/organizations_and_clubs/clubs_media/ |archive-date=2013-05-27 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* Pratt's yearbook, ''Prattonia'', is designed by selected Pratt students.
* ''Pratt Radio'', a student-run internet radio station broadcasts on the web. Originally broadcasting from a limited-range signal in the mid-1980s, the [[Federal Communications Commission|FCC]] stepped in and shut the operation down after students modified the broadcast tower, rendering Pratt Radio [[pirate radio]].{{Citation needed|date=May 2013}} The station later re-emerged in 2001 as a legitimate internet-only station.
* ''The Felt'' is an online journal of poetry and prose from the MFA Writing program.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.pratt.edu/academics/liberal-arts-and-sciences/the-department-of-writing/graduate-writing/the-felt/|title=Pratt Institute &#124; Academics &#124; School of Liberal Arts and Sciences &#124; The Department of Writing &#124; Graduate Writing Program &#124; The Felt|website=www.pratt.edu|access-date=2019-04-23|archive-date=2019-04-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190423133523/https://www.pratt.edu/academics/liberal-arts-and-sciences/the-department-of-writing/graduate-writing/the-felt/|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Fraternities and sororities===
The Inter-Greek Council is responsible for all Greek life organizations at Pratt Institute. In total, Pratt offers one [[fraternity]] for male students and two [[sororities]] for female students:<ref>{{Cite web |title=Greek Rank |url=https://www.greekrank.com/uni/759/greek-life/ |access-date=November 12, 2024}}</ref>
* [[Kappa Sigma]]
* [[Theta Phi Alpha]]
* [[Sigma Sigma Sigma]]

==Athletics==
[[File:Pratt cannonneers logo.png|thumb|Pratt Cannonneers wordmark]]
Pratt was awarded full [[NCAA Division III|Division III]] membership in the [[National Collegiate Athletic Association]] (NCAA) on September 1, 2022.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://goprattgo.com/news/2022/7/6/pratt-institute-awarded-full-ncaa-division-iii-membership.aspx|title=Pratt Institute Awarded Full NCAA Division III Membership|website=Pratt Institute Athletics|publisher=Pratt Institute|access-date=2024-07-17|archive-date=2024-07-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240717021836/https://goprattgo.com/news/2022/7/6/pratt-institute-awarded-full-ncaa-division-iii-membership.aspx|url-status=live}}</ref>

The Cannoneers joined the [[Atlantic East Conference]] (AEC) in the 2024–25 academic year<ref>{{cite web |title=Pratt Institute to Join the Atlantic East in 2024-25 |url=https://goprattgo.com/news/2023/6/22/pratt-institute-joins-atlantic-east-conference.aspx |website=Pratt Institute Athletics |publisher=Pratt Institute}}</ref> and are the only New York institution in the seven-member league.

Pratt sponsors 14 NCAA intercollegiate programs and is a member of the Coast to Coast Conference (C2C), with men's volleyball being a member of the Colonial States Athletic Conference (CSAC). Pratt began its transition to NCAA Division III with an exploratory season in 2018–19, which was rewarded with provisional membership the following year.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Pratt Institute Awarded Full NCAA Division III Membership |url=https://goprattgo.com/news/2022/7/6/pratt-institute-awarded-full-ncaa-division-iii-membership.aspx}}</ref>

===Facilities===
Designed by Ezra Ehrenkranz and Daniel Tully and constructed in 1974, the Activity Resource Center, or simply known as "The ARC", is the main hub for Pratt Athletics and Recreation. The ARC boasts several courts for recreational and competitive activities, a fitness and performance room, a multi-use studio room, a 200-meter indoor track, a boxing and functional fitness area, and over 41,000 square feet of open event space for special occurrences.

It also previously hosted the annual Colgate Games, the nation's largest amateur track series for girls from elementary school through college.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.colgategames.com/FactSheet.htm|title=Colgate Games Fact Sheet |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081224200951/http://www.colgategames.com/FactSheet.htm |archive-date=24 December 2008| url-status=dead}}</ref>

===Mascot===
The school's mascot, the Cannoneer, derives from the 19th-century cannon that stands prominently near the main gate to the campus. Cast in bronze in Seville, Spain, the cannon bears the insignia of Philip V and was brought to Pratt from the walls of Morro Castle in Havana, Cuba, in 1899.

===Accomplishments===
====Men's Basketball====
The men's basketball team has a storied tradition, including the fourth-longest collegiate basketball rivalry in the nation between Pratt and Polytechnic University (Brooklyn, NY), with Pratt holding the overall record 78–59. The Cannoneers also took home a national collegiate championship title in 1901 and made four NAIA ('59, '60, '61, and '62) and two ECAC ('77,'79) post-season appearances.

Former players included Ed Mazria ('62), who was drafted by the New York Knicks, and [[Anthony Heyward]] ('94), who toured with the And1 streetball team as "Half Man Half Amazing". [[Bernard Chang]] was formerly captain of the men's varsity basketball team.

====Men's Soccer====
The men's soccer team won the inaugural NAIA tournament in 1959, edging [[Elizabethtown College]] 4–3 in double overtime.

====Cross Country====
The women's cross-country team recently captured the 2006 HMWAC championship title and coach Dalton Evans won "Coach of the Year" honors. The men's cross-country team also has a championship title. The women's tennis team has won three HVWAC titles, including an appearance in the ECAC tournament.

===Intramurals===
In addition, there are intramural activities scheduled throughout the year, ranging from individual (tennis and track & field) to team sports (soccer, basketball, volleyball, and touch football). Two premier student intramural events include the fall classic Halloween Pratt Ratt Outdoor Obstacle Relay Race and the annual Mr. & Ms. Pratt All Thatt Fitness & Artistic Expression Pageant finale.

===Past affiliations===
The Cannoneers previously competed in the [[Coast to Coast Athletic Conference]] (C2C) from 2020–21 to 2023–24 and in the [[American Collegiate Athletic Association]] (ACAA) during their NCAA Division III exploratory status from 2018–19 to 2019–20.<ref>{{cite web |title=NCAA approves Pratt |url=http://www.goprattgo.com/general/2017-18/releases/20180216hyaowh |website=Pratt Institute Athletics |publisher=Pratt Institute |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181010002529/http://www.goprattgo.com/general/2017-18/releases/20180216hyaowh |archive-date=10 October 2018 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

They also competed as a founding member of the [[Hudson Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Conference]] (HVIAC) of the [[United States Collegiate Athletic Association]] (USCAA) from 2004–05 to 2017–18.

==Notable people==

=== Alumni ===
{{Main|List of Pratt Institute alumni}}

=== Faculty ===
{{Div col|colwidth=25em}}
* [[Andrea Ackerman]], artist
* [[Joseph Barbera]], animator and co-creator of the ''[[Tom and Jerry]]'' series of animated shorts
* [[Karen Bausman]], architect
* [[Jonathan Beller]], film theorist
* [[Jonas Coersmeier]], architect
* [[Peggy Cyphers]], painter
* [[Arthur Deshaies]], printmaker
* [[Eva Díaz (art historian)|Eva Díaz]], art historian
* [[Greg Drasler]], painter
* [[Arthur Wesley Dow]], decorative arts
* [[Shannon Ebner]], photographer, chairperson of the photography department
* [[Fritz Eichenberg]], printmaker
* [[Carla Gannis]], artist
* [[Tula Giannini]], musicologist, information scientist
* [[Philip Guston]], painter
* [[Eric Goldberg (film director)|Eric Goldberg]], film director and animator
* [[Charles Goslin]], graphic designer
* [[James Hannaham]], writer
* [[Stephen Hilger]], photographer
* [[Ralph Johonnot]], taught color theory, decorative arts, and interior design (1909–1912), former head of the design department
* [[Peter Kayafas]], photographer
* [[Sean Kelly (writer)|Sean Kelly]], writer
* [[Josh Koury]], filmmaker
* [[Manuel de Landa]] ([[Adjunct professor#Adjunct professor|adjunct]]), philosopher, artist
* [[Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt]], painter
* [[Jacob Lawrence]], painter
* [[John Lehr (photographer)]], photographer
* [[Matthew Leifheit]], photographer
* [[Philip Johnson]], architect
* [[Mickalene Thomas]], artist
* [[Sibyl Moholy-Nagy]], architectural and art historian
* [[Sergio Rossetti Morosini]], painter, sculptor
* [[Anna Moschovakis]], poet, novelist, translator
* [[Mario Naves]], art critic
* [[Toshio Odate]], Japanese woodworker, sculptor<ref>{{Cite news|last=Chamberlain|first=Frances|date=1996-06-02|title=Two Studios With One Goal: Perfection|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/06/02/nyregion/two-studios-with-one-goal-perfection.html|access-date=2021-09-18|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=2024-09-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240913231351/https://www.nytimes.com/1996/06/02/nyregion/two-studios-with-one-goal-perfection.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Denis Peterson]], painter
* [[Reeva Potoff]], artist and educator
* [[Nick Relph]], photographer and filmmaker, K–12 center instructor
* [[Carole Rosenthal]], English and Humanities professor emeritus
* [[Carissa Rodriguez]], photographer
* [[Nasser Sharify]], father of international librarianship
* [[Matthew Sharpe (writer)|Matthew Sharpe]], author
* [[Carrie Schneider]], photographer
* [[Anna Shteynshleyger]], photographer
* [[Milagros de la Torre]], photographer
* [[Anne Turyn]], photographer
* [[Charles Warner]], architect
* [[Eva Zeisel]], ceramic artist/designer
* [[Fifi Ejindu|Fifi Ekanem Ejindu]], Architect 
{{Div col end}}

==References==
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==Further reading==
* Elbert Hubbard, 1909, ''Little Journeys to the Homes''
* Tarbell, Ida M. 1904, ''The History of Standard Oil''
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20041022091641/http://www.case.org/guide/pratt_institute.html Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) Web site, Pratt Institute page]
* [http://www.pratt.edu/history Pratt Institute official Web site, History page] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090214111518/http://www.pratt.edu/history |date=2009-02-14 }}
* [https://www.nytimes.com/1991/12/13/nyregion/pratt-decides-to-end-school-for-engineers.html?pagewanted=1 New York Times article announcing end of engineering school] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160803041734/http://www.nytimes.com/1991/12/13/nyregion/pratt-decides-to-end-school-for-engineers.html?pagewanted=1 |date=2016-08-03 }}
* [https://www.asme.org/wwwasmeorg/media/ResourceFiles/AboutASME/Who%20We%20Are/Engineering%20History/Landmarks/25-Pratt-Institute-Power-Plant.pdf Pratt Institute power plant]

==External links==
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* [https://goprattgo.com/ Athletics website]
* [http://www.thirteen.org/programs/treasures-of-new-york/#pratt-institute Pratt Institute]—Documentary produced by [http://www.thirteen.org/programs/treasures-of-new-york/ Treasures of New York]
* {{HAER |survey=NY-70 |id=ny1191 |title=Pratt Institute, Power Generating Plant, Willoughby Avenue between Classen & Hall Streets, Brooklyn, Kings County, NY |photos=2 |data=1 |cap=1}}

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