Commencement

If you would like to walk across the stage at the Commencement ceremony but you missed the grad app deadline on February 14, please fill out the form anyway, and email commence@pratt.edu. This will get you on the mailing list for the ceremony and we will be able to give you accurate information about tickets.

We can guarantee 2 guest tickets to any student who completes the grad app and the ticket request form by Friday March 7. If you complete the form after March 7 we will do our best to accommodate you and your guests with the limited capacity that is available.

If any extra tickets are available, we will begin notifying students around March 21. Only students who completed the ticket request form by March 7 will be eligible for extra tickets. Please keep an eye on your Pratt email.

Come to your one-stop-shop for everything related to Commencement.  You will be able to pick up your pre-ordered cap and gown, the 2025 Prattonia Yearbook, academic and student leadership cords and braids, get professional graduation portraits taken (reservation required), order a class ring, and more all in one place! 

Students: pre-order your cap and gown here by March 25
Faculty: pre-order via an rsvp form that came to your Pratt email address
 

Grad Fair, Manhattan
Pratt Manhattan, 7th Floor
Tuesday 4/29, 11:30 AM – 6 PM

Grad Fair, Brooklyn
Student Union
Friday 5/2, 10 AM – 6 PM
Saturday 5/3, 10 AM – 3 PM

Pratt Institute will host a commencement ceremony to celebrate the hard work, resilience, and achievements of our Summer 2024, Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025, and Summer 2025 graduates.

Pratt Institute’s Commencement Ceremony

Tuesday, May 20, 2025
10:00 AM

Radio City Music Hall
1260 6th Avenue
New York, NY 10020

Want to know what it will feel like to be at Radio City on May 20? Click here for a video.

Graduating is the administrative process to complete your degree and receive your diploma, while Commencement is the ceremony to celebrate that achievement! You can graduate without participating in commencement, but you cannot participate in commencement without graduating. The deadline to fill out the Graduation Application (GradApp) passed on February 14. Please email commence@pratt.edu if you missed the deadline and want to participate in the Commencement ceremony and walk across the stage.

• The deadline to apply to graduate passed on February 14. If you missed the deadline and want to participate in the Commencement ceremony and walk across the stage, please email commence@pratt.edu.
• February 28 – March 7, 2025: Request your tickets for the commencement ceremony! The form will be emailed on February 28 to all students who filled out the Grad App.
  • Ticket Details: 2 guest tickets will be available to every student who completed the Grad App by the 2/14/2025 deadline and respond to the ticket form by the 3/7/2025 deadline. We will collect extra ticket requests and distribute them if they become available.
• March 7, 2025: Deadline to order your regalia (cap and gown).
• Mid-late March 2025: Check your Pratt email for a form to claim your extra ticket(s)! Extra tickets (if available) will be offered to students who requested them by the March 7 deadline, but you must claim them via the extra ticket form. 
• April 29, May 2, and May 3, 2025: Pick up your regalia and academic and leadership cords and braids (if applicable) at the Grad Fair, hosted in Manhattan and Brooklyn campuses. Get in-person help with your commencement tickets.
• May 2025: Tickets will be accessible in the MSG Account Manager site.
• May 20, 2025: Attend Pratt Institute’s 2025 Commencement Ceremony at Radio City Music Hall!

Calling all Pratt Musicians and Vocalists! Audition for the opportunity to perform at Pratt Institute’s 2025 Commencement Ceremony.

“Far Above Cayuga’s Waters”, composed by Archibald Croswell Weeks and Wilmot Moses Smith is the Pratt Institute anthem, or Alma Mater. Each year, as part of the commencement ceremony at Radio City Music Hall, the Alma Mater is performed by one or more graduating students.

If you would like the opportunity to perform this piece on stage for the Class of 2025 and their guests, please submit your audition video via this form by March 31, 2025.

Email commence@pratt.edu.