On a blue vertical ellipse, edge with a 1/8 inch (.32 cm) blue border, a shield blazoned as follows: Gules, within a double tressure flory counter flory three crescents Or; on a chief Argent a bar wavy Celeste. CREST: From a wreath Or and Gules, an open book of the first, pages Argent, charged with three torteaux in chevron.  Above the shield the arced inscription SETON HALL UNIVERSITY in white; below the shield a tripartite white scroll inscribed HAZARD ZET FORWARD in red. Overall dimension is 4 inches (10.16 cm) in height and 3 1/16 inches (7.78 cm) in width.  

Blue and white are the school colors. The shield, upon the ellipse, is adapted from the Coat of Arms for the Seton Family, founded in 1856 by Archbishop James Roosevelt Bayley and named after his aunt Elizabeth Ann Seton.

The shoulder sleeve insignia was approved on 2 December 1963, it is currently amended to update the manufacturing drawings, description and symbolism 26 February 2016. (TIOH Drawing Number A-10S-255)

A silver colored metal and enamel shield shaped device, 1 1/8 (2.86 cm) in height overall blazoned as follows: Sanguine, within a double tressure flory counter flory three crescents Argent (Silver); on a chief of the second a bar wavy Azure. CREST: From a stylized wreath Argent (Silver), an open book of the first, charged with three guze in chevron. 

The shield is adapted from the Coat of Arms for the Seton Family, founded in 1856 by Archbishop James Roosevelt Bayley and named after his aunt Elizabeth Ann Seton.

The first shoulder loop insignia was approved on 25 May 1976. It was amended to change the color red to maroon on 19 August 1976, it is currently amended to update the manufacturing drawings, description and symbolism on 26 February 2016.