 Campbell did her undergraduate studies in mathematics at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Ghana, graduating with first class honours.After additional study at the University of Cambridge, she moved to McGill University in Canada, where she worked with Sherwin Maslowe.She earned a master's degree at McGill in 1996, with a master's thesis on "Forced Rossby Wave Packets in a Zonal Shear Flow in the Presence of Critical Layers".