JHEASA coordinates all the higher education institutions – Universities, Colleges, Institutes and Centre’s in their mission of forming men and women for and with others.

JHEASA functions in its collaboration and networking at four zonal levels.

JHEASA aims to transform all JHEASA institutions as discerning organizations, with Ignatian tradition and heritage.

The first ever Higher Education Institution of the Jesuits was set up in Goa (1540) by St. Francis Xavier, one of the founding fathers of the Society of Jesus. It was, however, only in 1961 that the Jesuit Educational Association of India (JEA) was constituted by the conference of Major Superiors (Bombay, October 1961) and registered as a society. However, when the conference of major Superiors itself became a registered society Jesuit Conference of India the JEA merged into JCI as its education section.