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 [...]

This year’s Times Higher Education-QS World University Rankings sees the slight erosion of US supremacy in the number of institutions in the top 200 as the table illustrates:

National honours: most institutions in top 200

2008
2009

Country
Region
200
200

US
North America
58
54

UK
Europe
29
29

Canada
North America
12
11

Japan
Asia
10
11

Netherlands
Europe
11
11

Germany
Europe
11
10

Australia
Australasia
9
9

Switzerland
Europe
7
7

China
Asia
6
6

Belgium
Europe
5
5

Hong Kong
Asia
4
5

Sweden
Europe
4
5

France
Europe
4
4

South Korea
Asia
3
4

Denmark
Europe
3
3

Israel
Asia
3
3

New Zealand
Australasia
3
3

India
Asia
2
2

Ireland
Europe
2
2

Norway
Europe
1
2

Russia
Europe
1
2

Singapore
Asia
2
2

At the same time, The UK has ascended to the top of the [...]

Based on Doug Thompson’s work at OACAC, I have tabluated the top schools for international student financial aid. First by straight pot of money:
The top 20 based on overall money

Rank
College
Total Awarded

1
Harvard College
$20,529,414

2
Mount Holyoke College
$13,682,904

3
Yale University
$12,888,572

4
Princeton University
$11,828,906

5
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
$9,433,000

6
University of Pennsylvania
$9,036,708

7
University of Southern California
$6,960,670

8
Middlebury College
$6,873,412

9
Stanford University
$6,508,740

10
Columbia University
$6,506,466

11
Dartmouth College
$6,284,139

12
Brown University
$6,182,006

13
St. John’s University
$6,012,468

14
Vassar College
$5,602,891

15
Williams College
$5,522,341

16
Oberlin College
$5,046,525

17
St. Lawrence [...]

Washington Monthly magazine gained a fair bit of publicity and noteriety when it offered up its rankings based on:
Social mobility: The first column shows the percentage of students receiving Pell Grants. The second shows the predicted rate of graduation, based on incoming SAT scores and Pell Grant percentages, versus the actual rate of graduation. The [...]

USA Today has published a new interactive tool maping out Princeton Review’s 100 best value colleges, which include these schools:
PRIVATE
1. Swarthmore College (Swarthmore, Pa.)
2. Harvard College (Cambridge, Mass.)
3. Princeton University (Princeton, N.J.)
4. Rice University (Houston, Texas)
5. Yale University (New Haven, Conn.)
6. Williams College (Williamstown, Mass.)
7. Amherst College (Amherst, Mass.)
8. California Institute of Technology (Pasadena)
9. Pomona [...]