@shawbridge and @marvin100:
The top LACs and RUs do well in everything. It was something I noticed when coming up with my tiers: http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/1893105-ivy-equivalents-ranking-based-on-alumni-outcomes-take-2-1-p1.html
HYPSM and WAS (and a few others) are top 25 in both producing “American Leaders” (mostly leaders in business, government, and the arts but some in the sciences, journalism, etc.) and per capita PhD production. Both are Forbes subrankings. There are many LACs who are much higher in the PhD production ranking than the “American Leaders” ranking.
But while you found a few RU’s like Georgetown, UMich, UPenn, ND, and UVa who are in the top 25 in the “American Leaders” ranking but outside the top 50 in the PhD ranking, there was no LAC that had that profile. That was my point.