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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.
Grad Fair took place on April 29, May 1, and May 2. If you missed Grad Fair, please pick up your cap & gown, cords, awards convocation tickets, and faculty passes at the Registrar’s Office between Wednesday, May 7 and Wednesday, May 14 from 9 AM to 5 PM. The Registrar’s Office is located on the 6th floor of Myrtle Hall.
6:30 AM – Volunteers
8:00 AM – Faculty
8:15 AM – Undergraduate/Associate Students
8:30 AM – Graduate Students
8:45 AM – Guests with accessibility accommodations
9:00 AM – All Guests
10:00 AM – 1:00 PM – Commencement Ceremony
All students and guests, including children ages 2 and older, are required to have a digital ticket to enter the venue.
Students walking in the commencement ceremony MUST arrive in cap and gown and with a student graduation ticket to enter Radio City Music Hall.
Please visit the Tickets page for more information.
Poet and cultural critic Claudia Rankine will deliver the Commencement address and receive an honorary degree, and distinguished alumni Annabelle Selldorf and Stefan Sagmeister will receive honorary degrees.
Visit this page to view honorary degree recipient bios.
After entering Radio City Music Hall, in the lobby, students will check in and pick up their individual name card. The name card will be used by the name reader as you walk across the stage.
Students can skip the line in the lobby by picking up their name card in advance at the Brooklyn Campus Student Union front desk on:
Each student must show their name card in order to get into the auditorium at Radio City.
During the ceremony, the name card will be collected for the name readers just before each student walks on stage.
Please arrive with your regalia unzipped or draped on your arm so you can pass through security quickly.
Please note that the Radio City Music Hall Code of Conduct explicitly prohibits ‘signs, flags or banners.’ We kindly ask that you and your guests adhere to this policy and refrain from bringing any life-size signs, flags, banners, and/or large umbrellas to Radio City. Upon check-in, Radio City staff will collect these items, and retrieval may not be possible as Radio City does not have a facility to store personal belongings. Your cooperation is greatly appreciated.
For any event or venue-related inquiries, please contact Radio City Music Hall at 212-465-6000.
The Commencement ceremony will be livestreamed – there will be a link at the top of www.pratt.edu page to the livestream on the day of the ceremony.
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.
