'flagship institution' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to describe a large, respected, and/or influential institution. For example, "Harvard is known as a flagship institution, with an international reputation for excellence in research and teaching."
Jericho's flagship institution, the Palestinian Security Sciences Academy, opened in October.
The City Opera has been aggressively lobbying to be named the flagship institution in the new cultural presence at ground zero.
As a result, even Germany's flagship institution, Deutsche Bank, has been on the sidelines in the most recent skein of deals.
Germany's own flagship institution, Deutsche Bank, had enormous but manageable write-downs of over $11 billion from the earlier stages of the crisis.
The bank also said that Richard S. Ravenscroft, 48 years old, president of the Philadelphia National Bank, its flagship institution, was leaving the company.
The early rumblings of another turbulent session for higher education recently began, set off by lawmakers' accusations that regents of the University of Texas System — all appointed by Gov. Rick Perry — are "micromanaging" its flagship institution.
Then last spring the U.T. System Board of Regents approved spending $30 million a year — special financing set aside for flagship institutions — to help establish an Austin medical school.
Although Trump questioned the basis for Obama's presence at two Ivy League schools, in absolute terms, blacks remain a marginal presence at the nation's flagship institutions.
And what has worked in Austin — substantial public-private investment, financing set aside by the State Constitution for flagship institutions, and a voter-approved 5-cent property tax increase — is not necessarily a fit in the Rio Grande Valley.
And the numbers of black and Hispanic students who make it into the city's specialized high schools, long seen as its flagship institutions, have declined significantly over recent decades.
"There is a real danger that the British Museum could be in a real downward spiral, and no matter what the problems have been in the past, no matter what mistakes have been made, this is one of Britain's great flagship institutions and one of the great museums in the world".
