During their year-and-a-half stay, Wu (who had already received her B.A. in political science from St. John's University) went on to complete her master's degree in International Relations at Columbia University.
一方面由於嚴慶齡的鼓勵，另方面也是她自己有上進的心志，結婚四年後，她考進聖約翰大學念政治。民國卅九年，她卅七歲時，又趁熱中發展汽車工業的嚴慶齡到美國考察汽車業時，跟著到美國，以一年半的時間，在紐約哥倫比亞大學修得國際關係碩士學位。