| 1901 |
First women graduated from the College of Medicine: Love Rosa Hirschmann Gantt, Emilie Melanie Viett Rundlett |
| 1904 |
City Hospital's South Carolina Training School for Nurses becomes Roper Hospital Training School for Nurses |
| 1904 |
First women graduated from the College of Pharmacy: Hebe E. Butler, Jane W. Colson |
| 1913 |
Medical College of the State of South Carolina became a state institution |
| 1914 |
Medical College of the State of South Carolina campus moves to its current location |
| 1919 |
Roper Hospital Training Schools for Nurses becomes the School of Nursing at the Medical College of the State of South Carolina |
| 1919 |
Charleston Public Health Officer Leon Banov (Graduate, School of Medicine) instituted the first municipal milk pasteurization program in the country |
| 1924 |
Centennial Memorial of the Medical College of the State of South Carolina, 1824 - 1924 published |
| 1936 |
Kenneth Lynch (President, MCSC, 1949 - 1960) and William Atmar Smith link brown lung disease (asbestosis) with cancer |
| 1947 |
Horace G. Smithy (Assistant Professor of Surgery) designs valvulotome and pioneered mitral valve heart surgery |
| 1947 |
Maxine Larisey becomes first female professor in School of Pharmacy |
| 1948 |
Elsie Taber becomes first female full-time professor in School of Medicine |
| 1950 |
First students admitted to the Graduate Studies Program |
| 1950-1951 |
Board of Trustee title changes from President and Vice President to Chairman and Vice Chairman |
| 1952 |
College's name changes back to the original Medical College of South Carolina |
| 1953 |
SC General Assembly approves the establishment of the Dental School at the Medical College of South Carolina |
| 1964 |
John E. Buhler, D.D.S., arrives as First Dean of the School of Dental Medicine to develop faculty and facilities |
| 1965 |
School of Graduate Studies officially opens |
| 1965 |
First African-American student admitted to the College of Medicine (did not graduate) |
| 1965 |
Thomas S. Hargest and Curtis P. Artz (Department of Surgery) invent fluidized airbed for use in burn therapy |
| 1966 |
School of Allied Health Sciences founded, later became the College of Health Professions in 1993 |
| 1966 |
School of Nursing diploma became a baccalaureate degree |
| 1967 |
First class enrolled in the School of Dental Medicine |
| 1968 |
First organ transplant (renal) at MCSC |
| 1969 |
Medical College of South Carolina becomes Medical University of South Carolina, and the schools within it become colleges |
| 1969 |
Hospital Workers' strike lasts for ninety days (March 20 - June 27) |
| 1970 |
Family Practice Program established as one of the first in the nation. Dr. Hiram B. Curry named Professor and Chairman of the new department |
| 1971 |
First African American graduates from the College of Medicine, Bernard W. Deas, Jr |
| 1971 |
First class graduates from the College of Dental Medicine. |
| 1971 |
First male African American graduates from the College of Pharmacy, James L. Hodges |
| 1972 |
First female African American graduates from the College of Nursing, Rosslee Douglas |
| 1973 |
First female graduates from the College of Dental Medicine, Cathy Moss Owen |
| 1973 |
First female African American graduates from the College of Medicine, Delores Gibbs |
| 1974 |
First male African American graduates from the College of Dental Medicine, George McTeer |
| 1974 |
Sesquicentennial, 1824 - 1974: Tradition, Progress, Excellence published |
| 1974-1982 |
Albert Bruce Sabin, MD (developer of oral polio vaccine) is Distinguished Research Professor of Biomedicine. |
| 1975 |
First male African American graduates from MUSC's College of Nursing B.S. program, Joe Nelson Mitchell |
| 1975 |
First African Americans graduate from the College of Graduate Studies, Tyrone Delong Dash and Clara Kathleen Wilson |
| 1980 |
First female African Americans graduate from the College of Pharmacy, Phyllis C. Johnson-Wolf, Janice N. Jones, and Cassandra Tisdale |
| 1983 |
First female African American graduates from the College of Dental Medicine, Dorothea Gertrude Taylor |
| 1992 |
100th anniversary of the Medical University Alumni Association |
| 1997 |
Anesthesiologist Joanne Conroy, M.D., appointed the first woman department head in the history of the College of Medicine |
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