Pratt Institute-Main
Private College in Brooklyn, NY. Six-year graduation rate 74%. Median 10-year earnings $54,295.
Students who entered Pratt Institute-Main land at a median of $54,295 a decade later, close to what most four-year schools deliver. Completion is a strength: 74% of students finish within six years. Graduates carry a median of $26,000 in debt — in line with the national norm. Mobility is where this school separates itself: 2.6% of students move from the bottom income quintile to the top.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Admissions
An acceptance rate of 73% puts Pratt Institute-Main on the accessible end — a realistic target for a broad range of applicants. 8,457 applications came in, enough to make the rates below reasonably stable year to year. A 18% yield rate is low: the admitted pool is much larger than the entering class. The score bands below rest on the 16% of enrolled first-years who submitted an SAT score — a self-selected group, and not a cutoff.
Test score bands (middle 50% of submitters)
These bands describe the enrolled first-years who submitted a score, not the entering class. Where most students apply test-optional the submitters are a self-selected, higher-scoring group.
| Test | 25th–75th percentile | Submitted |
|---|---|---|
| SAT Evidence-Based Reading | 590–700 | 177 (16%) |
| SAT Math | 560–690 | |
| ACT Composite | 26–31 | 28 (2%) |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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74% of students finish within six years, putting completion well above the national norm. 88% of full-time first-years return for a second year — a healthy figure. Retention and completion are close, which places the gap between entering and finishing almost entirely in year one. The 9:1 student-faculty ratio is small enough that seminar-sized classes are the norm. This is a private nonprofit four-year college, so read every rate on this page against that peer group specifically.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 3,786 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Net price averages $54,150 annually, so cost is the first thing to weigh here. Aid is steeply need-based: families in the $0–30k band pay $38,545 while those at $110k+ pay $60,477. Grant aid reaches 81% of students at an average of $25,446. About 35% borrow federally, roughly the national pattern.
Entering first-year students
A different, smaller group than the rates above: full-time students in their first year of college anywhere. The grant series here also excludes the "other sources" counted in the all-undergraduate figure, so the two are not comparable.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · 779 students
Net price by family income
The same students as the headline above, limited to those who received Title IV federal aid — a narrower group, with a lower overall average. IPEDS publishes no combined figure across these bands, so they should not be averaged into one.
| Family income band | Average net price |
|---|---|
| $0–30k | $38,545 |
| $30–48k | $44,439 |
| $48–75k | $48,694 |
| $75–110k | $59,020 |
| $110k+ | $60,477 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 1,325 of these 3,786 students, totalling $8,674,328 — an average of $6,547 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Kings County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026
Veterans & GI Bill
VA GI Bill Comparison Tool (Veterans Affairs GIDS)