PRATT INSTITUTE

Conducts new student orientation programs across Brooklyn and Manhattan campuses, including program-specific orientations for MFA Fashion Collection and Communication and History of Art and Design students. Provides information sessions for prospective students, manages registration, course enrollment, grade reporting, graduation, and course scheduling, and issues academic transcripts and enrollment verifications.

Offers campus tours at the Brooklyn location for prospective students and visitors.

Implements programs, practices, and policies to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, alumni, and the external community. Communicates updates through a monthly newsletter and Instagram.

Provides financial support in the form of scholarships to over 80% of enrolled students.

Conducted spatial data analysis and created nearly 100 maps for the Museum of the City of New York's "New York at Its Core" exhibition.

Educates 5,114 graduate and undergraduate students across 58 academic programs with support from 1,222 faculty members. Provides academic support through the Writing and Tutorial Center, Intensive English Program, and Writing Across the Curriculum initiatives.

Hosts book launch events such as for Table Issue 1, transforms vacant storefront windows along 14th Street into public exhibitions of student work, provides a public transit art tour map highlighting artworks by Pratt-affiliated artists in MTA stations, and features student and alumni work in public installations such as a billboard in Times Square. Facilitates alum engagement events, including visits to professional firms like Adjaye Associates.

Runs long-standing programs providing art classes for children and teens aged 6–18, studio-based classes for high school students in grades 9–12, and a two-week summer intensive for grades 7–12 featuring portfolio preparation. Offers a need-based, three-year scholarship program with art and design instruction and college preparation for motivated high school students in grades 10–12. Delivers after-school, in-school, and school-break STEAM programming, internships, tutoring, SAT prep, and college counseling at the main campus, partner schools, and Brooklyn Navy Yard makerspace.

Operates libraries that provide access to a resource-rich environment supporting critical thinking and creative learning.

Manages multiple residence halls and student meal programs, and operates athletic center activities for students, faculty, and staff. Administers a housing program designed to foster student self-understanding, community responsibility, and experiential learning.

Provides reasonable accommodations for students, faculty, staff, and visitors with disabilities in compliance with federal and state law. Operates the Learning/Access Center to support students with disabilities in accessing classrooms, housing, and campus programs, and offers accommodations for faculty and staff through Human Resources. Retains an accessibility consultant to maintain compliance with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 Level AA and hosts annual Accessibility Town Halls with published materials.

Consistently ranked among the world's top 10 art and design universities by QS World University Rankings by Subject annually since 2015, ranked #5 globally and #3 in the United States in the 2026 edition.