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  Jonathan D. Shain

  Prudential Investments LLC

  Gateway Center 3

  100 Mulberry Street

  Newark, NJ 07102

  Tel: 973-802-6469 Fax: 973-367-8065

  March 30, 2005

  Larry Greene

  Office of Disclosure and Review

  Division of Investment Management

  Securities and Exchange Commission

  450 Fifth Street, N.W.

  Washington, D.C. 20549

Re:                               Strategic Partners
Style Specific Funds – Strategic Partners Large Capitalization Growth
Fund:  Schedule 14A Proxy Filing

Ladies and Gentlemen:

Strategic Partners Style Specific Funds (the “Fund”) is writing
in response to comments given by telephone on March 28, 2005, by Larry
Greene of the staff (the “staff”) of the Securities and Exchange Commission
(the “Commission”) to the undersigned, regarding the Fund’s filing on Schedule 14A
of preliminary proxy materials.

 For your convenience, a summary
of the staff’s comments is included herein and the Fund’s responses are keyed
accordingly, as follows:

Summary of SEC Comments Received on Strategic Partners Style Specific
Funds Schedule 14A Filing

Comment:  The first page of the proxy statement
indicates that the purpose of the meeting is for Fund shareholders to vote on a
new subadvisory agreement with Jennison Associates LLC (Jennison).  The discussion should clarify that if
Jennison is approved as

the Fund’s new subadviser, the existing subadvisers to the Fund will be
terminated and replaced.

Response:  We will clarify the discussion to state that
if shareholders approve Jennison  as the
new subadviser to the Fund, the existing subadvisers to the Fund will be
replaced with Jennison.

Comment:  In the section of the proxy statement
titled “Voting Information,” there should be an explanation of whether shares
represented by abstentions or broker non-votes will be counted for purposes of
an adjournment of the meeting.

Response:  We will clarify this section of the
proxy to indicate that abstentions and broker non-votes will not be counted for
purposes of approving an adjournment of the meeting.

Comment:  The proxy statement should include an
estimate of solicitation costs, regardless of whether or not the Adviser is
bearing the costs of the proxy.

Response:  We will include a discussion of the expected
proxy solicitation costs to be incurred by the Adviser.

Comment:  The discussion in the proxy statement of the
proposed new subadvisory fee to be paid to Jennison does not comply with Schedule 14A,
Item 22(c)(9), because it does not state the amount that Jennison would have
received if the proposed fee had been in effect during the last fiscal year,
and because it does not state as a percentage the difference between the
aggregate amounts paid to the existing subadvisers and the amount that would
have been paid to Jennison during the last fiscal year if the proposed fee had
been in effect.

Response:  We will revise the proxy statement to include
this information.

Comment:  In the section of the proxy statement
entitled “Investment Strategy Changes,” there should be a discussion of the
risks posed by the indicated changes.

Response:  We will include appropriate discussions of
the primary risks posed by each of the investment strategy changes identified
in the proxy.

Comment:  The proxy statement indicates that if
shareholders approve the new subadvisory agreement with Jennison, the Fund
intends to change its name to Jennison Conservative Growth Fund.  The proxy statement should clarify whether or
not the change in the Fund’s name indicates a change in the Fund’s policy of
investing in large capitalization growth stocks.

Response:  The Fund does not intend to change its policy
of investing in large capitalization growth stocks, and the proxy statement
will be so clarified.

Comment:  The information statement attached to the
proxy statement as Exhibit C should be separately filed on EDGAR under Schedule 14C,
although it can be included as an exhibit to the proxy statement.

Response:  We will separately file the information
statement on EDGAR on Schedule 14C.

The Fund acknowledges that (i) should the Commission
or the staff, acting pursuant to delegated authority, declare the filing
effective, it does not foreclose the Commission from taking any action with
respect to the filing; (ii) the action of the Commission or the staff, acting
pursuant to delegated authority, in declaring the filing effective, does not
relieve the Fund from its full responsibility for the adequacy and accuracy of
the disclosure in the proxy statement; and (iii) the Fund may not assert a
declaration of effectiveness as a defense in any proceeding initiated by the
Commission or any person under the federal securities laws of the United
States.

Any
questions or comments with respect to the proxy statement may be communicated
to the undersigned (973-802-6469).

Please send any
copies of any correspondence relating to this filing to Jonathan D. Shain by
facsimile at 973-367-8065 with the original by mail to Prudential Investments
LLC, 100 Mulberry Street, Newark, New Jersey 07102.

  Very truly yours,

  /s/ Jonathan D. Shain

  Jonathan D. Shain

  cc: Larry Greene

  (Securities and Exchange
  Commission)

  Kathryn Quirk

  (Prudential Investments
  LLC)

  Margery K. Neale

  (Shearman & Sterling
  LLP)