In Popular Culture
- The music video of Billy Joel's song The Longest Time was filmed in its entirety at Pratt Institute in 1984.
- Comic book artist Daniel Clowes's experience at the Pratt Institute provided the inspiration for his satirical comic Art School Confidential, upon which the 2006 film of the same name was based.
- Segments of the 1990 movie Jacob's Ladder were filmed at Pratt, as well as scenes for the 2006 film The Good Shepherd, directed by Robert De Niro. Some episodes of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit were filmed on campus.
- Pam Beesly from The Office was accepted to Pratt in the episode "Goodbye, Toby." She studies for three months and leaves Pratt by the episode "Business Trip."
- Liz Lee, star of the quasi-reality series My Life as Liz currently attends Pratt and much of the filming of the second season was done on location.
- In the first season of the TV show Fringe, Pratt was used as a shooting location to stand in for Harvard University.
- Season 2 of In Treatment features April, an architecture student at Pratt who has cancer.
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