"prestigious setting" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to an impressive environment or context, either physical or abstract. For example, "The professor delivered his lecture in an incredibly prestigious setting, having been invited to speak to a crowd of widely respected scientists."
Mr. Allen acknowledged that he was better off having transferred to a school that met his needs, albeit in a less prestigious setting.
The Reading Weekend is an expansion of the concept, a residential book club dedicated solely to the enjoyment of literature, and held in an equally prestigious setting, Tilton House in Berwick, Sussex.
Speaker John A. Boehner, a Republican who grew up in a Roman Catholic family in Ohio, is scheduled to give the commencement address on Saturday at the Catholic University of America in Washington, a prestigious setting in church circles for its affiliation with the nation's bishops.
The company was based in the top two floors of Heron Tower, the tallest skyscraper in the City of London, but the prestigious setting – an unlikely one for a startup – came at a cost of nearly £6m over three years, according to Deloitte.
Partner and board member extraordinaire David Sze tells me this fund comes from Greylock's "most prestigious set of LPs yet", and also features the smallest number of total LPs yet thanks to long relationships with some of the world's top endowments.
At the start of the court vacation in August 1904, Hastings decided that it would be best to find a tenancy in a more prestigious set of chambers; Corbet only dealt with two or three cases a year, and solicitors were unlikely to give briefs to a barrister of whom they had never heard.
It was a prestigious job, setting up training courses, and he had his own key to the gardens, and a briefcase with E II R embossed in gold.
And if the name on the door and the address are impressive -- America's most prestigious university setting up shop on Silicon Valley's BMW-lined boulevard of venture capital and innovation -- the research center is not much to look at.
Amid the recent programming announcements for fall festivals, one film has quietly slipped into some of the year's most prestigious slots, setting it up as a possible surprise discovery for the coming awards season.
The globalisation of higher education and a shift towards greater competition has seen many prestigious universities set up campuses overseas.
Other prestigious artists set to play at the dairy farm in Somerset include Motown singer Lionel Richie and jazz singer Gregory Porter.
