As you start refining your list: Maybe you should start by looking at Quality of Life. In this case, how stressful is the the college?
Five criteria were taken into account:
• The cost: Financial pressure is a huge stress-inducer. Tuition plus room and board, weighted at 35 percent. With 2009-2010 data from the National Center on Education [...]

From Forbes

1. Williams College
2.Princeton University
3.Amherst College
4.United States Military Academy
5.Massachusetts Institute of Technology
6.Stanford University
7.Swarthmore College
8.Harvard University
9.Claremont McKenna College
10.Yale University
11.United States Air Force Academy
12.Wellesley College
13.Columbia University
14.Haverford College
15.Wesleyan University
16.Whitman College
17.Pomona College
18.Northwestern University
19.California Institute of Technology
20.University of Chicago

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As to their methodology:

No. 1: Student Satisfaction (27.5%)
Student Evaluations from RateMyProfessor.com (17.5%)
Freshman-to-Sophomore Retention Rates (5%)
Student Evaluations from MyPlan.com (5%)
No. 2: [...]

First up, Washington Monthly National University rankings:
Social Mobility (recruiting and graduating low-income students), Research(producing cutting-edge scholarship and PhDs), and Service (encouraging students to give something back to their country). For an explanation of each category, click here.

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Univ. of California, San [...]

Taylor Mali has a goal to create 1000 teachers through poetry and perseverance. He spoke to my students yesterday and I thought I would share one of his landmark poems with you about teachers. The words or below, but Taylor is worth hearing:

What Teachers Make, or
Objection Overruled, or
If things don’t work out, you can always [...]

GamePro offers up a  listing of best colleges to study Video Game Design:

1
University of Southern California, Interactive Media Division

Location: Los Angeles, CA
Degrees offered: Major/Minor
Number of students enrolled: 16,283
Student/Faculty ratio: 9:1
Annual tuition: $38,570
The Interactive Media Division of USC has graduated some pretty big names in the indie gaming scene. Jenova Chen of thatgamecompany (flOw), Matt [...]

According to Unigo:

01
Reed College

02
Wabash College

03
University of Chicago

04
Whitman College

05
Swarthmore College

06
Bennington College

07
Pitzer College

08
Hampshire College

09
Sarah Lawrence College

10
Grinnell College

Let see how they did when you compare it with the data on full-bright scholars?
Top U.S. Producers of Fulbright Students, by Type of Institutions, 2009-10

Research institutions
Number of awards
Number of applicants

Northwestern U.
32
109

U. of Chicago
31
128

Brown U.
29
106

Stanford U.
28
87

U. of Michigan at Ann Arbor
28
111

Yale U.
25
92

Columbia [...]

College Surfing is offering up their Champions of social media usage in higher ed. Although I did my own rankings of college use of technology in the past, it is always refreshing to see another’s look. They focus on Web 2.0 but do not really quantify exactly what that means. Looking at the more detailed [...]

According to Unigo:

01
Wabash College

02
Harvey Mudd College

03
Washington and Lee University

04
Whitman College

05
Claremont McKenna College

06
Pomona College

07
Pepperdine University

08
Bennington College

09
Davidson College

10
Pitzer College

Let the rejoicing begin: China has their own bad football league academic association of prestigous universities they are calling C9 (I hope it sounds better in Chinese).
Xu Mei, the ministry’s spokeswoman, said the establishment of the conference is a “helpful attempt that is conducive to the country’s construction of high-quality colleges, cultivation of top-notch innovative [...]

Best Undergrad College Degrees By Salary

Methodology
Annual pay for Bachelors graduates without higher degrees. Typical starting graduates have 2 years of experience; mid-career have 15 years. See full methodology for more.

And Business is not even in the top 10…or 20…or 30…

Best Undergrad College Degrees By Salary - Full List

Best Undergrad College Degrees By Salary
Starting Median Salary
Mid-Career [...]