Pratt (place)

Be True to Your Work
And Your Work Will Be True to You

-Pratt Institute motto

Pratt Institute opened its doors on October 17, 1887 to its first class of twelve students. The next year, its programs in Liberal Arts and Sciences were established. Two years later, the Library School opened and has since been distinguished as being the oldest school of Library Science in the United States. In 1910, the School of Science and Technology was created. In 1936, the Industrial Design Department was created. Two years later, Foundation Year was established and the first baccalaureate degrees were awarded. In 1946, the Interior Design Department was established. In 1954, the School of Architecture was separated from the School of Art.

Pratt offers undergraduate bachelor degrees in the following programs:

• Architecture (me)
• Construction Management
• Art and Design Education (nocode)
• Art History
• Communication Design
• Computer Graphics and Interactive Media
• Fashion Design
• Fine Arts
• Industrial Design
• Interior Design
• Media Arts
• Writing for Publication, Performance and Media

Pratt's graduate programs are:

• Graduate Architecture
• Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment
• Graduate Architecture and Urban Design
• Facilities Management
• Art and Design Education
• Art History
• Creative Arts Therapy/Dance Movement Therapy
• Art and Cultural Management
• Graduate Communications/Packaging Design
• Computer Graphics and Interactive Media
• Design Management
• Fine Arts
• Industrial Design
• Interior Design
• Library and Information Science

The Pratt campus is located on 25 acres in the Clinton Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn, at the Clinton-Washingon stop on the G train. Pratt Manhattan is located in the Puck Building at 295 Lafayette at Houston Street, at the Broadway-Lafayette stop on the BDFQ trains.