Williams College is first.

Incidentally, both were attended by a U.S. President.

beat Swarthmore (3rd place), Middlebury (4th place), Bowdoin College (4th place), and Pomona College (4th place), and others, ending with Erskine College (180th place).

1. The 2014 US News National Liberal Arts College Rankings is at http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges.
   

Amherst College is in Amherst, MA, is private and nonprofit, is in the New England Small College Ath Conf, degree-granting, a top-100 happiest school, offers on-campus housing, has a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, accepts the Common Application, was attended by a U.S. President, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is economics, is on the semester system, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• USNews Liberal Arts College ranking (2nd place)
• Wall St. Journal feeder school ranking (9th place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (40th place)
• Webometrics world ranking (1,328th place)
• research spending ($2.4M)
• endowment per full-time student ($849,646)
• average full-time teaching salary ($103,909)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($44,610)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($44,610)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($34,876)
• cost of a shared room ($6,310)
• average undergrad student loan ($5,197)
• research spending per student ($1,284)
• full-time retention rate (98%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (71%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (47.3%)
• minorities (33.7%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (20%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (19%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (14.6%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 13.3%)
• in-state freshmen (12.1%)
• Hispanics (11.6%)
• Blacks or African Americans (11.5%)
• Asians (10.6%)
• foreign students (9.3%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -11.7%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (660)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (660)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (670)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (770)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (760)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (770)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (5)
• average January temperature (23.1 degrees)
• dorm capacity (1,793)
• first-year applicants (8,461)
• foreign students (178)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (20)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (2,300)
• yearly for-credit students (1,904)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (5.25)
• students per faculty member (8)
• annual rainfall (46.0 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.18)
• elevation (87 meters)

Sources