Plugin for creating Lists

Hi All,

For one of the websites, I administer, I would like to create various custom list posts. While, each list will be single custom-post containing various user-defined parameters. Are there any plugins or ways in which I could achieve this?

I am guessing I should use Custom Post Type option here, but I hate the idea of having to create many different custom post-types each time I want to create a list.

Example of lists:
1. Current Presidents of Democratic Countries. Then paramters can be something like Name, DOD/Age, Tenure, Past, A Description Etc.
2. Top 100 Universities in the world: The parameters will be Name, Year of founding, Departments, Number of Students, Number of Staff, etc!

Would I be able to do something like this with any plugins or would I have to write a plugin from scratch? Thanks!