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Pratt’s mission 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.
More than 100 years after the
founding of Pratt Institute, Charles
Pratt’s mission is still reflected in the
quality of the students the Institute
attracts, the work and achievements
of its alumni, and the exceptionally
high caliber of its faculty. This
level of excellence has earned Pratt
an international reputation as a
first-rate school.
The student body is composed of
4,722 undergraduate and graduate
students—28 percent men and 72 percent
women. Eighty-two percent are full-time.
Twenty-five percent are international.
Not surprisingly, hundreds of Pratt
alumni who first became acquainted
with the neighborhood in their student
days have stayed to settle in Clinton Hill.
Attracted by its elegant 19th-century
homes, its close proximity to Manhattan,
its ethnically diverse population, and
its reasonable cost, they have joined a
cadre of other young urbanites who have
purchased and renovated the Victorian
homes that mark the area. Clinton Hill is
now one of New York’s premier renovated
Victorian neighborhoods, with historic
landmark status and a place on the
National Register of Historic Places.
In part because of Pratt, the
neighborhood boasts an extraordinary
number of creative artists, architects,
designers, illustrators, and sculptors
among its inhabitants. Says one, “In
the diversity of the people and the
architecture there is an electricity and
creativity that is hard to describe,
but which, for me, since my days at Pratt,
has represented the urban experience
at its best.”
Pratt Today
Left: Students leaving Myrtle Hall, Pratt’s newest building,
which opened in 2010.