University of East-West Medicine is a specialized institution in Sunnyvale, California, focused on acupuncture and East Asian medicine. Its identity is tied to training practitioners rather than offering the broad undergraduate curriculum associated with a conventional university.
Prospective students should confirm the institution's current operating status and the history of the particular degree they intend to pursue. A program's past offerings do not, by themselves, establish that it is accepting new students or that its curriculum remains unchanged.
University of East-West Medicine's academic focus is acupuncture and East Asian medicine, not a range of separately organized liberal arts, engineering, and business colleges. Coursework in this field commonly combines medical theory, assessment, treatment methods, herbal studies, and supervised clinical training.
The credential named on an application matters: a degree program, a professional certificate, and an individual continuing-education course can have different admission rules and licensing implications. Applicants should use the current academic catalog to identify the exact credential, required clinical hours, and sequence of courses before comparing programs.
University of East-West Medicine is associated with Sunnyvale, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area. The setting is suburban and part of a region where students often travel between neighboring cities for work, housing, and services.
For a clinically oriented program, commuting plans should account for both classroom meetings and any required patient-care shifts. Applicants should confirm the address of each instructional or clinical site and its current transit and parking arrangements rather than assume all activities take place at one location.
The institution's educational focus is preparing students to study and practice East Asian medicine, particularly acupuncture. That is a narrower purpose than a university offering degrees across many unrelated fields.
Students evaluating that purpose should look beyond a general mission statement to the curriculum and clinical requirements. Those documents show how the institution connects its educational aims to supervised practice and preparation for professional licensure; a stated aim is not evidence of an individual student's eventual licensing or career outcome.
Name of the institution
University of East-West MedicineLevel of institution
Four or more yearsControl of institution
PrivateSetting type
City: MidsizeInstitutional Category
Degree - granting, graduate with no undergraduate degreesInstitution size category
Under 1,000University of East-West Medicine is institutionally accredited by the Accrediting Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine, an accrediting agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. Accreditation confirms that the school meets quality standards and is required for students to receive federal financial aid.
Master's degreeData last updated on November 2, 2026
Data sources: IPEDS 2024-25, Peterson 2026, College Scorecard 10/2026, Clery 2024 (2023-24), OpenAlex 2026
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