As one of the world's multicultural epicenters for arts, culture, design, and business, New York City provides Pratt students with an exceptional learning environment beyond the Pratt campuses in Brooklyn and Manhattan.
Pratt has a 25-acre campus in Brooklyn, a creative hub amid a renaissance, and another in Manhattan. The Institute's campus in the historic Clinton Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn is adjacent to the emerging Brooklyn Tech Triangle, a nexus for innovation and entrepreneurship.
Pratt's programs are consistently ranked among the best in the country, and its faculty and alumni include the most renowned artists, designers, and scholars in their fields. Its interdisciplinary curriculum promotes collaborative and creative strategies for design thinking and provides students with unparalleled training facilities.
The mission of Pratt Institute is to educate artists and creative professionals to be responsible contributors to society. Pratt seeks to instill in all graduates aesthetic judgment, professional knowledge, collaborative skills, and technical expertise. With a firm grounding in the liberal arts and sciences, a Pratt education blends theory with creative application in preparing graduates to become leaders in their professions. Pratt enrolls a diverse group of highly talented and dedicated students, challenging them to achieve their full potential.
At Pratt Institute, diversity is represented by a mosaic of unique individuals from various racial, ethnic, religious, gender, gender presentation, sexuality, geographic, cultural, age, abilities, and socioeconomic groups. Each individual brings their unique intellectual, artistic, and creative gifts to create a richness of our community's differences. As a leading college of art and design devoted to a creative learning community, Pratt recognizes the strength of a diversity of perspectives, values, ideas, backgrounds, styles, approaches, experiences, and beliefs. We aspire to continue to grow as a place that welcomes and encourages individuals of all backgrounds to contribute to and be part of the Pratt culture.
At Pratt Institute, you will be living, working, and creating alongside some of the world's most interesting, most creative, and most inspiring minds. It is partially because we are in Brooklyn. It is also because we are in New York. It is mostly because we are Pratt. You will put in the work inside the studio and classroom, and out in the world. A world that happens to include the world's most fantastic city and all the opportunities that New York provides. But even if you do not leave campus, you will find a full array of services, programs, and activities right here. It is where you will grow as a thinker and artist. It is where you will have our support every step of the way. And it is where you will rise to every challenge you will find at Pratt.
The Office of International Affairs (OIA) welcomes about 700 new International students each year. There are about 1,700 international students from 79 countries. Thirty-three percent (33%) of Pratt's enrolled students are international. Besides providing services to international students, the OIA takes care of J-1 Exchange Visitors, including Inbound exchange students, professors, and scholars. The OIA is the office in charge of keeping Pratt in compliance with the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of State.
Pratt Institute was founded in 1887 by American industrialist Charles Pratt. An advocate of education and the transformational impact it can have on people's lives, Pratt set out to provide an affordable college education accessible to working men and women. When the college opened in 1887, it was among the first to welcome students regardless of class, color, or gender. At the turn of the 20th century, the rapidly industrializing economy required new training initiatives and educational experiences for workers. Pratt responded by providing programs that prepared students to enter the fields of design and engineering. Early Pratt students became architects, engineers, dressmakers, and furniture makers. Pratt's engineering and design programs were complemented by a liberal arts curriculum that provided students with a rich and full understanding of the world in which they would be working. This approach remains a part of the Pratt curriculum.
Today, Pratt Institute is transforming academic excellence in architecture, art, design, information studies, and liberal arts and sciences through its defining heritage and visionary future. Since the first class of 12 students convened on Pratt's Brooklyn campus in 1887, the college has become a top-ranked global leader in higher education with a world-renowned faculty of over 1,100 award-winning artists, designers, architects, writers, and scholars.
Realizing that solving today's pressing challenges means going beyond traditional academic thinking, Pratt's faculty inspires its students to question the status quo to develop new solutions for real-world problems. With this in mind, the Institute is home to several impact-driven centers that push the boundaries of innovation on topics ranging from community development, sustainable fashion, and robotics to data visualization. Pratt's locations—a beautiful 25-acre main campus in Brooklyn and a landmark building in Manhattan—provide unparalleled opportunities for 4,700 students to learn from artistic leaders and local and international industries. In 83 countries globally, Pratt's 62,000 alumni are advancing the creative economy and shaping the world through their remarkable work.
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