The Boston University College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences: Sargent College is a unit of Boston University. The College offers both undergraduate and graduate degree programs to prepare students for both research and clinical careers in health care and the rehabilitation sciences.HistoryIn 1881, Dr. Dudley Allen Sargent founded the Sargent School of Physical Training in Cambridge, Massachusetts. During the decades that followed the establishment of the School, Dr. Sargent built a reputation as an innovator in physical conditioning and health promotion. At the Sargent School, students learned training techniques to strengthen and improve the physical capabilities of all people, including both disabled and healthy individuals. This emphasis on comprehensive health care remains a focus of the College today. Sargent College became part of Boston University in 1929, five years after Dr. Sargent's death.In the fall of 1990, BU Sargent College moved to an extensively renovated facility at 635 Commonwealth Avenue. The six-story building contains classrooms, student lounges, research laboratories, an outpatient clinic, and faculty and staff offices.Areas of studyThe Sargent College has four academic departments that confer degrees upon undergraduate and graduate students: Department of Health SciencesDepartment of Occupational TherapyDepartment of Physical Therapy & Athletic TrainingDepartment of Speech, Language & Hearing SciencesUndergraduateSAR offers the following degrees at the undergraduate level: Bachelor of Science (BS)Behavior & HealthHealth ScienceNutritional SciencePhysical TherapySpeech, Language & Hearing SciencesDieteticsHuman Physiology
