Registration FAQ

Continuing students will receive the date and time of their registration appointment via email from the Registrar’s Office. Registration dates are assigned by the Registrar’s Office (reg@pratt.edu) based on seniority. Important dates and deadlines for continuing students can be found on Pratt’s Academic Calendar. Incoming students will be emailed by the SI Office to set up a Zoom advising appointment with an academic advisor. During this appointment, incoming students will officially register for their first semester courses. 

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. For example, if one of your desired courses fills before you’re scheduled to register, you can easily pivot and register for a pre-approved backup course on your course plan. Each new course that’s added to your plan must be approved by your academic advisor in OnePratt through Student Planning. You can request approval by selecting the “Advising” tab and then selecting “Request Review”.

1. Log on to OnePratt and go to “Self Service” > “Course Catalog”.
2.  A list of subjects will appear on the screen. Use the search bar to find and select the course subject “Information”. 
3. Explore the list of offered INFO courses for the upcoming semester by using filters. We recommend that you filter by “Terms” to ensure that you are looking at courses for the correct semester. 

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.).

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 your academic advisor will approve 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.  If permission is granted, either the chairperson or your academic advisor can approve your course plan. Please note, 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 academic 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 academic 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.

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 academic advisor advises you on degree planning, approves your courses in Student Planning each semester, and assists with administrative processes in support of your education. Your academic advisor is either Quinn Lai or Meredith Brull. 

Yes, in order to change your faculty advisor please email your academic 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.  Please note that course advising differs from the course approval process, which must be completed by your academic advisor each semester.

You should aim to submit your “planned” courses for approval approximately 1-2 weeks before your assigned registration date and time. This is especially important if you have a course waiver.

4. Log on to one.pratt.edu and select the “Self Service” icon.
5. Select the “Student Planning” box. 
6. Select “Go to Plan & Schedule” in box #2.
7. Select the “Advising” tab (right above the term). 
8. Select the “Request Review” button on the right. 

You will receive an email confirmation from your academic advisor. You will also see a green “Approved” status bar above your courses in the “Course Plan” tab, within Student Planning.

If you have received this error, this means that you have not requested course approval from your academic advisor. You can request approval by selecting the “Advising” tab and selecting “Request Review” in Student Planning.

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

If you have a course waiver for INFO-654 and/or INFO-610, it is important that you submit your course plan via the Student Planning system as soon as possible. Course waivers will need to be applied to your course plan by the Registrar’s Office each and every semester until you graduate. Each waiver is course specific. In other words, just because INFO-654 has been waived for one course, this does not mean that it has been waived for every course that lists INFO-654 as a prerequisite. The process of requesting and applying course waivers can take up to one week.

EXAMPLE: You are formally waived from INFO-654: Information Technologies and therefore, you have a course waiver. This upcoming semester you would like to register for INFO-606: Digital Accessibility and INFO-637: Programming User Interfaces. Both of these courses list INFO-654: Information Technologies as a prerequisite, which means that an INFO-654 course waiver must be applied to each course. Before you are able to register for INFO-606 and INFO-637 you will need to follow the steps below:

1. Add INFO-606 and INFO-637 to your course plan.
2. “Request Review” under the “Advising” tab in Student Planning.
3. Your academic advisor will notify you by email that they are requesting two course waivers from the Registrar’s Office – one for INFO-606 and one for INFO-637.
4. Your academic advisor will email you to confirm when both INFO-654 course waivers have been applied to your course plan by the Registrar’s Office. This process can take up to one week.
5. After receiving this confirmation email from your academic advisor, you should check the “Petitions & Waivers” tab in Student Planning to ensure that your waivers have been added correctly. Here, you will see that two waivers have been applied to your course plan – one INFO-654 waiver has been applied to INFO-606 and one INFO-654 waiver has been applied to INFO-637. 
6. You are now able to register for INFO 606 and INFO INFO-637 on your assigned registration date and time.

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 academic advisor.

9. Log on to OnePratt and go to “Self Service” > “Course Catalog”.
10. A list of subjects will appear on the screen. Use the search bar to find and select the course subject “Information”. 
11. Filter by “Open Sections Only” and by the relevant “Term” using the filters on the left hand side of your window. 
12. Identify a course (and a section) that still has spots available and add it to your plan by selecting “Add Section to Schedule”.  The course is now planned and requires your academic advisor’s approval.
13. Select “Request Review” within the “Advising” tab. Once approved, you may register for the course.

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

Each course states the attendance policy on the syllabus, and may vary between courses.  Please consult the syllabus and if necessary the instructor for clarity on the implications of joining a class after missing one or more weeks of the semester.

Students can add and drop courses until the add/drop deadline set forth in Pratt’s Academic Calendar.  However, please note that there could be implications for joining a course late based on the course’s attendance policy (see question 6b. above).

If you wish 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. Request course approval by selecting “Request Review” in the Advising tab. The course must be approved by your academic advisor before you perform the swapping transaction! 
3. Once the course is added and approved on your plan, select “Drop” under the course that you no longer want to take. 
4. After selecting “Drop”, a box will appear on your screen, asking you to confirm this action. It will also provide you with an option to add a course at the same time. Select the checkbox next to the course that you’d like to register for and then select “Update”. 
5. You 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 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.

In most cases, international students who need to take less than 9 credits in their final semester in order to reach 36 credits can apply for an exception to full-time enrollment. An exception to full-time enrollment allows international students to register for less than 9 credits in their final semester, while still maintaining eligibility for their F-1 visa status. If you are an international student planning to take less than 9 credits in your final semester, please make sure to complete the exception to the full course of study form in your OIA Student Portal. 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 – at Pratt, CPT authorization can only be obtained if the student is also registered for an internship course. Please consult the SI Practicum + Internship For Credit Process and Requirements document to learn more about the three internship course options (INFO-698, INFO-9601, and INFO-9600) for international students. Pages two and three of the document outline the internship course registration process, and how it fits into and relates to the CPT application/authorization process. 

The deadline for obtaining a confirmed internship offer is the add/drop deadline for each semester.  Students will not be allowed to register for an internship course or apply for CPT after the published add/drop date for each semester. 

For a more comprehensive overview of the CPT application process, please review OIA’s CPT webpage, where you can find helpful resources such as the OIA CPT Slides, CPT eligibility requirements, internship approval deadlines, internship job offer requirements, and more.

Your internship start and end dates must coincide with the first and last date of the semester. You cannot start your internship before the first date of the semester and you cannot continue working past the final date of the semester.

You can participate in an internship in the fall, winter, spring and summer semesters. In order to be eligible to apply for CPT, you must complete two semesters of coursework.

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 academic 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.