The mark consists of a circle of light-blue background with blue round strip with yellow lines on both sides and yellow English and Chinese characters in between the yellow lines. The English characters read as "UNIVERSITY OF HERBAL MEDICINE"; The Chinese characters read as "MEI GUO ZHONG YI YAO DA XUE", which transliterate as "University of Chinese Medicine of the United States" at the bottom of the circle; one yellow star on each lower side of the circle separating the English and Chinese characters; a bold eagle with white head and yellow beak and light-purple wings, holding a green sword cutting a green snake in the upper middle ; a U.S. national flag in red, white and blue in the shape of the U.S. map in the middle; white olive leaves outlined in grey at the lower middle beneath the U.S. map; white English characters and numbers "SINCE 1994" at the bottom of the inner circle.