School of Information: Registration FAQ

Continuing students will receive the date and time of their registration appointment via email from the Registrar’s Office (reg@pratt.edu). Registration dates are assigned by the Registrar’s Office based on seniority. You can also find your registration date in Student Planning (see steps below).

How to Find Your Registration Date & Time

1. Log on to one.pratt.edu and select Self Service.
2. Select Student Planning and then Go to Plan & Schedule in box #2.
3. You’ll land on your course plan for the current semester. Click on “>” or “+” next to the term to view the next semester’s course plan. 
4. Your registration date and time will be listed directly below the term in a blue box. It will look something like this: “Student’s registration period for Fall 2026 begins on 11/9/2026 at 8:00 AM”. This means that you may register for Fall 2026 and make changes to your registration from April 9th at 8:00am onwards. 

You should add a maximum of 3 backup courses to your course plan each semester. Backup courses provide you with flexibility during your assigned registration date and time. In the event that one or more of your first choice courses fill up before you’re scheduled to register, backup courses allow you to quickly pivot and register for an alternative course. 

1. Log on to OnePratt.
2. Select Academics from the drop down menu.
3. Select the Self Service icon.
4. Select Course Catalog.
5. A list of course subjects will appear on the screen. Within the list of course subjects scroll to find Information.
6. Once you’ve located Information on the list of subjects, select Information to view a list of School of Information course offerings.
7. Filter the list of courses by Terms to ensure that you are viewing courses for the correct semester.

1. Navigate to the online Course Catalog (one.pratt.edu > select “Academics” > select “Self Service” > select “Course Catalog” > select “Information” from the list of course subjects > filter by the appropriate semester under “Term”).
2. A list of courses will appear on your screen. 
3. Scroll to find a course that you’d like to add to your plan. 
4. In order to select a course section, click on View available sections beneath the course’s description. This will reveal all of the available course sections and the respective section details.
5. Once you decide on a section, select the Add section to schedule button, which will add the course plus your desired section to your course plan. You must do this for each course that you wish to register for.
   • In addition to adding 3 courses to your plan (or 1-2 courses to your plan if you’re a part-time student), you should also add 2-3 backup courses. This means that full-time students should have 5-6 courses on their course plan each semester, even if they only plan to register for 3 of them. Why? In the event that one or more of your first choice courses fill up before you’re scheduled to register, backup courses allow you to quickly pivot and register for an alternative course. 
6. After you have added courses to your plan, navigate back to Student Planning and select Go to Plan & Schedule in box #2. You should see all of the courses that you’ve added from the course catalog in yellow on your screen. The courses should also be listed down the left hand side of your screen with a yellow “Planned” status. 
7. Once you have settled on your planned courses for the upcoming semester, you will be able to register on your assigned registration date/time. Be mindful of prerequisites and do not over register!

Summer semester courses are published on the online Course Catalog along with fall semester courses, typically in March. You will register for summer and fall courses during the same registration period. All registration dates can be found on Pratt’s Academic Calendar.

You can review projected course offerings for future semesters using the School of Information Two-Year Course Plan.  Note that while the School plans to offer these courses in future semesters, we cannot guarantee that all courses will be offered (e.g., elective courses typically require 6 students to run, curriculum additions/revisions take place regularly, etc.).

SI offers 3 internship courses: INFO-9601, INFO-9600 and INFO-698. Please see the SI Practicum/Internship Courses document for a detailed breakdown of each course. 

Registration for an SI internship course does not necessarily need to take place on your assigned registration date/time. In fact, most students register for internship courses several weeks (or sometimes even months) following their registration slot. The deadline to register for an internship course is the add/drop deadline for the upcoming semester, which can be located on the academic calendar.

Example: If you are scheduled to register for Fall 2027 courses on April 8, 2027, you still have until the add/drop deadline for the Fall 2027 semester (typically early September) to secure an internship and register for an internship course. So in this example, April 8 to early September gives you approximately 5 months to register for an internship course for the Fall 2027 semester.

While you may add any internship course to your course plan at any time in the registration process, you will not be able to register for the course until you have a confirmed internship offer and have submitted all required paperwork/completed required steps within the registration process for each internship course. The registration process for each SI Internship course is outlined below.

If you are interested in registering for an all-institute course, which is a course that is being offered by a department or school outside of the School of Information, please follow the guidelines listed below. 

• Find a 600 level course. As a graduate student, you are required to take courses at the 600 level and above. As such, please make sure that you’re only considering course numbers in the 600s or above (e.g. INFO-601: Foundations of Information).
• Review your program’s curriculum. The number of credits that SI students are eligible to take outside of their program’s curriculum varies by program. Please consult your program’s curriculum via the graduate academic catalog for more information about how many all-institute credits/classes that you’re eligible to take. 
• Request permission to register. Written permission is required from the school or department that is offering the course. In order to request permission, please email the department chairperson in order to make the request. Contact information for department chairpersons can be found on the Pratt website.
  • Courses that do not require permission – If you are interested in registering for a graduate course in the History of Art and Design (HAD) or Communications Design (DES) departments, you can simply add the course to your plan and register for it. However, for courses offered by all other departments outside of the School of Information, you will be required to request permission to register. In order to request permission, please email the department chairperson in order to make your request. Contact information for department chairpersons can be found on the Pratt website.
  • Prohibited Courses that SI students cannot register for – Courses from Design Management (DM) and Arts and Cultural Management (ACM) are not open to School of Information students and you will not be permitted to register for them under any circumstances.

No, all courses must be 600 (graduate) level or above. In some cases your staff advisor can approve a 500 level course, which is an undergraduate course that is being taught at the graduate level. This will be determined on a case-by-case basis. Please email your staff advisor to request more information.

Please see the Registrar Office’s webpage on the course auditing process. Current SI students are not permitted to audit SI courses; only SI alumni are eligible to audit courses. However, current SI students may be able to audit other departments’ courses. Please note that the cost to audit a course is 50% of the regular tuition costs. Audited courses do not confer credits or grades.

Incoming students will be emailed by the SI Office to set up a Zoom advising appointment with a staff advisor. During this appointment, incoming students will officially register for their first semester courses.

Important dates and deadlines for continuing students can be found on Pratt’s Academic Calendar. 

Your full-time faculty advisor advises you on course selection and can provide you with guidance in exploring and setting professional goals. They will also grade your Portfolio, which is a graduation requirement that all students will submit in their final semester.  To find your faculty advisor, please consult the current list of faculty advisor/student advisee assignments. 

Your staff advisor advises you on degree planning, and assists with administrative processes in support of your education. Your staff advisor is either Quinn Lai or Meredith Brull.

Yes, in order to change your faculty advisor please email your staff advisor. The newly requested faculty advisor will need to agree to this change before it can be finalized.

No, course advising is not required but it is highly recommended. Course advising is offered by your full-time faculty advisor. 

The only courses that students can apply to waive are INFO-654: Information Technologies and INFO-610: Introduction to Statistics. 

Students with significant incoming technology experience may apply to waive taking INFO 654: Information Technologies by submitting the INFO-654: Information Technologies Waiver Request Form. Before submitting the waiver request form, you should first review the syllabus to assess your existing familiarity with the topics covered. You will be notified with a decision regarding your waiver request within one week and if you are approved for the course waiver, a letter to that effect will be added to your file. 

Students with significant incoming statistics experience may apply to waive taking INFO-610: Introduction to Statistics by submitting the INFO-610 Introduction to Statistics Waiver Request Form. Before submitting the waiver request form, you should first review the syllabus to assess your existing familiarity with the topics covered. You will be notified with a decision regarding your waiver request within one week and if you are approved for the course waiver, a letter to that effect will be added to your file. 

When a course is full, a “Waitlist” button will appear in place of the “Register” button below the course title in the “Course Plan” tab, within Student Planning. In order to add yourself to a waitlist, you must select the “Waitlist” button. Once you add yourself to the waitlist, you will be provided with a numerical “Rank”. For example, if you are ranked “1 of 2”, this means that you are first in line and that there is one other student on the waitlist behind you. If a spot opens up in said course, you will be offered the seat first and you will be notified via email.

If you are on a waitlist for a course and a spot becomes available, you will be notified by email. The spot in the course will be reserved for 48 hours. In order to claim your spot in the course, you will need to log in to Student Planning within 48 hours and register. You will not be automatically registered for the course. If you miss the 48 hour registration window, the next person in line will be contacted and given the opportunity to register. If you are on a waitlist for a course that you’re no longer interested in registering for, please drop yourself from the waitlist to allow the next student in line to register.

Yes. Please keep in mind that you should only add a maximum of 3 backup courses to your course plan, which means that you should be on the waitlist for no more than 3 courses. For academic counseling or feedback about your course plan, please consult your faculty advisor.

Please do not reach out to course instructors for questions about the waitlist. Assuming that you have already added yourself to the course’s waitlist, if a spot opens up in the course, you will be notified by email. If you have additional questions about the waitlist, please contact your staff advisor.

All add/drop deadlines can be found on Pratt’s Academic Calendar. 

Students can add and drop courses until the add/drop deadline each semester. Add/drop deadlines can be found on Pratt’s Academic Calendar.  While you are permitted to register for courses throughout the add/drop period, please note that there could be implications for joining a course after it has already met for one or more sessions.

If you need to make an adjustment to your course schedule between the first date of the semester and the add/drop deadline, you must “swap” courses instead of adding and then dropping courses. “Swapping” courses is important if you wish to avoid unwanted forfeiture fees (financial penalties for dropping courses after the first date of the semester; see the academic calendar for the full tuition refund schedule). 

In order to “swap” courses correctly, you will need to drop one course and add the other course simultaneously, in one transaction. If you make the change in two separate transactions by first adding a course (transaction one) and then dropping a course (transaction two), the registration system will recognize that you dropped a course and it will automatically charge you forfeiture fee.  The forfeiture fee is a result of dropping a course after the first date of the semester, as the first date of the semester is the last day for a full tuition refund. Even if you end up being registered for the same number of credits, completing the change in two separate transactions will alert the system that you have dropped a course and will trigger a forfeiture fee in accordance with the tuition refund schedule. The tuition refund schedule can be found on the academic calendar.

In order to “swap” courses correctly, please follow the instructions below:

1. Add the course that you’d like to swap into to your course plan.
2. Once the course is added and approved on your plan, select “Drop” under the course that you no longer want to take. 
3. After selecting “Drop”, a box will appear on your screen, asking you to confirm this action. Within the same pop-up window, you will also have the option to “Add” (register for) a different course at the exact same time. Select the checkbox to the left of the course that you’d like to register for. 
4. Select “Update” at the bottom of the pop-up windowYou will be dropped from one class and registered for the other class at the same time, in one transaction.

In order to declare an advanced certificate, please complete the form that corresponds to your degree program below. MSIXD students are not eligible to declare any advanced certificates. Students who plan to graduate with advanced certificate(s) must submit this form by the beginning of their final semester of study.  

• LIS Advanced Certificate Declaration Form
• DAV Advanced Certificate Declaration Form
• MDC Advanced Certificate Declaration Form

In some cases, students can complete two 12 credit advanced certificates (4 courses). Most advanced certificates are 12 credits, except for the Advanced Certificate in Archives, which is 18 credits (6 courses). If you are interested in declaring the Advanced Certificate in Archives, we do not recommend declaring a second advanced certificate. Note that the Advanced Certificate in Archives and Advanced Certificate in Conservation and Digital Curation (CDC) cannot be completed together, since the CDC certificate is a subcomponent of the Archives certificate.

If you are an international student planning to take less than 9 credits in your final semester, please make sure that you have completed the exception to the full course of study form in your OIA Student Portal. While completing the form, please list Quinn Lai (qlai@pratt.edu) as your advisor. For more information about full-time enrollment exceptions for international students, please consult the Full-Time Enrollment & Exceptions (FTE) webpage.

Full-time international students with F-1 visas are only permitted to register for one online course per semester. For example, if you are [1] an international student who is [2] planning to register for 9 credits next semester, you are required to register for at least 6 credits (2 courses) of in-person or hybrid instruction. As long as you register for at least 6 credits (2 courses) of in-person or hybrid instruction, your third course can be administered online.

If you are an international student registering for your final semester and you only need to complete 3 more credits in order to graduate, the final course cannot be administered online. If you would still like to take an online course in your final semester, you will be required to enroll in at least one in-person course to maintain F-1 status. This means that you will complete 39 credits instead of 36. If you are not interested in applying for OPT, you can potentially end your F-1 status early and complete the final online class from abroad.

Yes — taking a relevant internship course is required for any semester you wish to use CPT, as that academic work is what formalizes the internship as “an integral part of your established curriculum.”  Please review the table below to determine which internship course offered at the School of Information is most appropriate for you.

Please note that Course registration will take place after you have submitted your CPT application in your OIA Student Portal. In order to apply for CPT, you must first receive an internship offer and request a formal offer letter from your employer (see letter requirements here). Then you should submit your CPT application in your OIA Student Portal, which will require you to upload the formal offer letter from your employer.

After submitting your CPT application, the Assistant Dean, Quinn Lai, will contact you about registering for the appropriate internship course. You will then be registered for the internship course by a staff member in the Registrar’s Office (you will not register yourself for the internship course). Please consult the SI Practicum/Internship Courses document to learn more about the three internship course options (INFO-698, INFO-9601, and INFO-9600) for international students.

The deadline for receiving and accepting an internship offer for any given semester is the add/drop deadline. After the add/drop deadline has passed, students are not permitted to register for any courses, which includes all academic internship courses. Even if your CPT application is approved, failing to register for an academic internship course prior to the add/drop deadline will prevent you from using CPT/participating in your internship. Enrollment in an academic internship course is a requirement of CPT, but course registration will take place after you submit your CPT application in your OIA Student Portal.

For a comprehensive overview of the CPT application process, please review the information and resources found on the Office of International Affairs’ CPT webpage. OIA’s CPT webpage outlines CPT eligibility requirements, CPT application steps, approved internship start and end dates, internship job offer requirements, and more. Please note that you must apply for CPT before you will be registered for an academic internship course. After submitting a CPT application in your OIA portal, the Assistant Dean at Pratt SI, Quinn Lai, will contact you about registering for the appropriate internship course. You will then be registered for the internship course by a staff member in the Registrar’s Office (you will not register yourself for the internship course). 

Approved internship start and end dates are determined by the Registrar’s Office and administered through the Office of International Affairs. Those dates can be found on OIA’s CPT webpage, under the heading “APPROVABLE INTERNSHIP DATES (PER OFFICE OF THE REGISTRAR)”. You cannot start your internship prior to the approved internship start date and you cannot continue working at your internship past the approved end date.

As an international student, you can participate in an internship (and use CPT) in the fall, winter, spring and summer semesters. In order to be eligible to apply for CPT, you must complete at least two semesters of full-time coursework. Please review the table below to determine which internship course offered at the School of Information is most appropriate for you.

Any number of credit hours under 9, is considered part-time study. If you are a domestic student, you do not need to formally declare part-time status. By registering for less than 9 credits, you are automatically considered a part-time student. 

Merit-based scholarship eligibility requires that students are registered full-time. However, domestic students can petition to study part-time and retain their scholarship. If the petition is approved, the remainder of the scholarship will be prorated to the part-time proportion of full-time study. For more information, please consult the merit-based scholarship policy and the petition form.

*If you are an international student with a merit-based scholarship (and you are planning to study part-time in your final semester), please email your staff advisor for more information.

The “EPORT-001” represents your Portfolio graduation requirement. You must submit your Portfolio by November 1 for fall graduation and by April 1 for spring graduation. Once your portfolio is approved, this requirement will be marked as completed manually by administrative staff. Instructions for completing your portfolio can be found on our website on the Current Students webpage under “Portfolios”.

Prior to your graduation, please review the steps listed on the Graduation Application webpage.  Graduation application deadlines for each academic year can be found on the academic calendar. If you have any additional questions related to graduation requirements, please email the Registrar’s Office at reg@pratt.edu.

Yes, as long as you apply to graduate by the appropriate deadline, you will be invited to participate in the May Commencement ceremony. Once your graduation application has been approved by the Registrar’s Office, you will receive additional details via email about the ceremony. If you have additional questions about Commencement, please email the Registrar’s Office at reg@pratt.edu.