1881
Dudley Allen Sargent’s Normal School of Physical Training is founded in Cambridge, Mass.
1911
The school buys Sargent Camp in Peterborough, N.H., located on Halfmoon Pond. Physical education training begins there and continues until 1970 for all Sargent students.
1924
Dudley Allen Sargent dies.
1929
Sargent’s son, Ledyard Sargent, gives the school to BU.
1931
Physical therapy program starts.
1948
Academic Speech, Language & Hearing Center founded.
1958
School moves from Cambridge to new space on University Road on BU’s Charles River Campus.
1962
Occupational therapy program starts.
1973
Rehabilitation counseling, speech pathology, and audiology programs transfer from Wheelock (then known as the School of Education) to Sargent College. Nutrition program starts.
1979
Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation is founded.
1985
Sargent launches the first clinical doctoral program in audiology in the United States.
1988
Athletic training program starts.
1990
College moves to 635 Commonwealth Avenue.
1994
Sargent’s clinical doctoral program in audiology becomes the first doctoral-only program to be granted accreditation by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Council on Academic Accreditation.
2001
Center for Neurorehabilitation is founded.
2002
The student residence Sargent House, on Bay State Road, is dedicated.
2004
Sargent Choice Nutrition Center founded.
2006
Sargent establishes the Aphasia Resource Center.
2008
Ryan Center for Sports Medicine is established, the new home for the physical therapy clinic.
2012
Boston University publicly launches Choose to Be Great, its first-ever comprehensive campaign. Sargent raises more money during the campaign than over its entire previous history, bringing in more than $29 million.
2015
An endowed professorship in rehabilitation sciences is established, the first of its kind at the college.