Abstract: Mission statements or similar documents of 52 Jesuit Universities or Higher Education Institutions are here analyzed (25 from USA; 27 from other countries). A dual approach has been adopted: the first one, inductive, derived the main features from a first reading of all the Mission statements and then established a first grid of analysis (called the "Harvanek-Berleur grid); a second reading using this grid gave a first set of results; the second approach, more deductive, inspired by the analysis of the discourses of Frs. Arrupe and Kolvenbach on the Jesuit University, established a second grid of analysis (called the Arango-Berleur grid) which resulted in an alternative reading of the Mission statements and gave a second set of results. One third of the items of both grids (respectively 31% and 34%) are effectively mentioned in 30% of the Mission statements of the Jesuit institutions, revealing, not a consensus, but a good basis of discussion so as to lead to a deeper understanding of our own characteristics. Full results are here presented, giving a picture of how Jesuit universities or higher education institutions try to fulfill their mission. The "profile of Jesuit institutions is first and foremost the claim that they are rooted in our tradition, with an openness to the world - whether religious or otherwise - caring personally for each person in all his/her dimensions, developing an integral vision and the fulfillment of the person and of his/her liberty, according to the Ignatian charisma, this including the transmission of values in education. Education must follow the paths of academic excellence, and take care of the less favoured, as well as promote social justice and other values such as liberty, peace, a critical sense and other traditional humanistic values, etc. The orientations of General Congregation XXXII and the preferential love for the poor are also stressed in the documents. We also analyze the items which do not attain a score of 20%: this may help to perceive to what extent the statements differ from the content of the Fr. Generals' discourses on the university. Finally, the analysis examines the slight differences to be found between US mission statements and those of the others.