Many of IFSA Butler's universities are among the top academic institutions in the world. The following list contains a few of IFSA-Butler's highest ranking universities as ranked by Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

Top 100 universities

• Cambridge University - 4th
• Oxford University - 10th
• University College London - 22nd

Top 200 universities

• Cardiff University
  
• University of Queensland
• University of Buenos Aires
  

Top 300 universities

• Trinity College Dublin
• University of Otago
• University of St. Andrews

The Times Higher Education-QS World University List for 2008 ranks the following IFSA-Butler partner insitutions among the best in the world.

Top 100 universities

• Cambridge University - 3rd
• Oxford University - 4th
• University College London - 7th
• Australian National University - 16th
  
• King's College London - 22nd
• University of Edinburgh - 23rd
• University of Bristol - 32nd
  
• University of Sydney - 37th
  
• University of Melbourne - 38th
  
• University of Queensland - 43rd
  
• University of New South Wales - 45th
  
• Monash University - 47th
  
• Trinity College Dublin - 49th
  
• University of Auckland - 65th
  
• London School of Economics and Political Science - 66th
  
• University of Glasgow - 73rd
  
• University of York - tied for 81st
  
• University of Western Australia - tied for 83rd
  
• University of St. Andrews - tied for 83rd
  
• University of Nottingham - 86th

Top 200 universities

• University of Leeds
• University of Adelaide
• University College Dublin
• University of Otago
• University of Sussex
• Cardiff University
• Queen Mary, University of London
• Lancaster University
• Macquarie University
• University of Canterbury
• Universidad de Buenos Aires

Top 300 universities

• Queen's University of Belfast
• University of Wollongong
• University College Cork
• Victoria University of Wellington
• University of Technology, Sydney
• Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
• Flinders University
• Massey University
• University of Tasmania
• University of Essex