Graduate Interior Design

Graduate Interior Design

Pratt offers an MS in Interior Design. Interior Design at Pratt provides the ultimate learning environment—New York City, interior design capital of the United States—and a challenging course of study for students preparing themselves for a career in a field whose potential has only begun to be recognized. It is widely acknowledged that interior design education, as it is taught across the United States, began at Pratt. That so many of our alumni are found in the Who’s Who of Interior Designers is no surprise. The Interior Design program is consistently ranked among the top in the country in an annual independent professional survey. All faculty members are also practicing professionals who bring the realities of real-world interactions with clients and contractors into the classroom.

The Graduate Interior Design Program at Pratt, like its undergraduate counterpart, is an architecturally oriented program with emphasis on spatial design rather than surface embellishment. All aspects of space—scale, proportions, configuration, and light sources, as well as textures, materials, and colors—are studied in relation to their effect on the human spirit. Students are drawn from all parts of the world and, by way of the Qualifying Program, from a variety of disciplines, creating an intellectually and aesthetically stimulating ambience in the studios. It should be noted that applicants to the Qualifying Program are not required to submit a portfolio when applying for admission.

The program culminates with a thesis project; students may test their competence in all aspects of the profession, or pursue an academic research-oriented approach to study emerging issues and problems. The Exhibition Design Intensive is an alternative to the traditional thesis track and offers students a one-year immersion in exhibition design in the final year.

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