The phrase "a less prestigious" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when comparing the level of prestige of two or more entities, indicating that one has a lower status or reputation than another.
Example: "She chose to attend a less prestigious university to save on tuition costs."
Alternatives: "a lower-status" or "a more modest".
"In academia now it has become a less prestigious activity to be concerned about social reforms".
Instead, she's aiming for a less prestigious college and a career in teaching.
A loss in Norman to Oklahoma (8-0, 4-0) would relegate Oklahoma State to a less prestigious bowl game.
He continued his studies in a less prestigious (and less anti-Semitic) applied mathematics program, but his true education took place elsewhere.
Six weeks later, however, that police official was transferred to a less prestigious job, a move that provoked another media outcry.
Mr. Allen acknowledged that he was better off having transferred to a school that met his needs, albeit in a less prestigious setting.
Though she's dying to make inroads in her college's Greek community, Isabella decides to skip the party for another one at a less-prestigious sorority — she would never want her reputation tarnished by being associated with such trash.
The trend has been to award the event to major tracks like Belmont, Churchill Downs and Santa Anita on a semiregular basis, with a somewhat less prestigious track, like Arlington, Lone Star and, now, Monmouth, holding the event every fourth or fifth year.
A loss, and Paul Johnson's team heads to a far less prestigious postseason destination, thanks to an N.C.A.A. waiver.
Would it better advance his prospects to drop out of a world-famous graduate school or to finish a well-regarded degree at a somewhat less prestigious one?
In your opinion should he go to a smaller, less prestigious school where he can presumably get higher grades and get to know professors well for recommendations, or go to a larger, more prestigious school?
