In 1930 Wu Chien-hsiung passed the entrance exam for National Central University in Naning, her first choice and the most prestigious university in China south of the Yangtze. There she got a good grounding in physics and math.
一九三○年，吳健維如願考進江南最高學府﹘ ﹘中央大學，在大學奠下了良好的物理和數學基礎。