The Society of Jesus is a world-wide organisation of religious men founded in 1540 by St. Ignatius of Loyola, numbering about 20,000 spread all over the world, of whom over 4000 are working in the 20 provinces of India. In Andhra Pradesh alone, there are about 200 Jesuits working in schools and colleges, youth services and social work centres, in parishes and in missions of the Catholic Church

Jesuit Education

• Affirms Life, affirms the World.
• It helps an individual to grow within the human community.
• Its entire education has the sacred and the divine as the background. 
• It promotes dialogue among different faiths and cultures.
• Insists on care and concern for each person individually.
• It emphasizes active involvement on the part of the student. 
• It encourages lifelong openness to growth.
• Is value-oriented.
• It encourages a realistic knowledge, love and acceptance of the self. 
• It provides a realistic knowledge of the world in which we live.
• Proposes Jesus Christ as the model of human life.
• It provides adequate care and concern for others.
• It celebrates faith in personal and community prayer through worship and service.
• Is a preparation for active life-commitment. 
• It promotes faith in God that goes hand in hand with justice for all human beings. 
• It seeks to form men and women for others. 
• It shows a particular concern for the poor.
• Is at the service of the Church that walks in the footsteps of Jesus Christ. 
• It is at the service of the entire human society.
• It prepares students to become instruments of god-experience and harmonious human solidarity through their respective faith-communities.
• Pursues excellence in its work of formation. 
• It witnesses to excellence in all its endeavours. 
• It adopts means and methods in order to achieve its right and just purposes most effectively with common vision and common goals.
• It provides professional training and on-going formation to administrators and teachers.
• Stresses lay-Jesuit collaboration. 
• It relies on a spirit of community among administrators, teachers, staff, parents, alumni and benefactors in an atmosphere that promotes unity and communion.