Reply stevestofka says: 2014/05/09 at 22:27 Well Penn State, like *ahem* Wisconsin, Michigan, and Minnesota, and Ohio State, is a Big Ten school, so that should give you an idea of its relative academic power???Like the ACC, the Big Ten prides (prided? especially with Nebraska now in, but aren???t they also courting Rutgers?) itself on academics as well as athletics.