<p>Your ignorance is showing. In fact, U.Minn has long been one of those stellar Big 10 research U’s to which PSU has matriculated. The Gophers are in fact the model for aspiring Nits. And in recent years Minnie cleans up its gym floors with downtrodden Lion hoopers … and increasingly, it seems, Paterno coached pigskinners. 
(So sad watching an icon wither on the vine that’s been so good for him and his boys for so long. Ah, power is both an intoxicant and corrosive.)</p>
<p>In either case though, grad programs excluded, neither is what I’d consider “prestigious” since virtually any and all among the masses can and must be admitted.</p>