<p>If you conflated all the lists cited in this tread (Ph.D productivity; USN&WR Over/Under; USN&WR Best Teaching and the Princeton Review Academic Rating of 99 or 98) and selected out the top schools that overlap (excluding MIT and Harvey Mudd due their specialized technical focus) you end up with only two schools:</p>
<p>Carleton College
Grinnell College</p>
<p>Swarthmore, Reed, Chicago and Pomona drop out because they are not included on every list.</p>
<p>Who is the winner folks?</p>
<p>Did Newsweek have it right in 2004?</p>
<p>[Newsweek/Kaplan:</a> Grinnell College Is ‘Best All-Around’](<a href=“http://www.collegenews.org/x2783.xml]Newsweek/Kaplan:”>http://www.collegenews.org/x2783.xml)</p>