to the 2000s Pratt experienced the transition from being mainly a commuter school to becoming a residential school through the construction of new residence halls Cannoneer Court, Pantas Hall, and Stabile Hall.
=== Presidents ===
Charles Pratt (1830–1891), president from 1887 to 1891
Charles Millard Pratt (1855–1935), president from 1891–1893
Frederic B. Pratt (1865–1945), president from 1893–1937
Charles Pratt (1892–?), president from 1937–1953
Francis H. Horn, president from 1953–1957
Robert Fisher Oxnam (1915–1974), president from 1957–1960
Richard H. Heindel (c.1913–1979), president from 1961–1967,
James B. Donovan (1916–1970), president from 1968–1970
Henry Saltzman, acting president from 1970–1972
Richardson Pratt Jr. (1923–2001) (grandson of Charles Millard Pratt; great-grandson of Charles Pratt), president from 1972–1990
Warren F. Ilchman (1933–), president from 1990–1993
Thomas F. Schutte (1936–2025), president from 1993–2017
Frances Bronet, 2018–present
== Academics ==
=== Rankings ===
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