After seven years at Chapin, Kennedy Onassis went to Holton-Arms School in Washington, D.C., staying from 1942 to 1944, and Miss Porter's School in Farmington, Connecticut, from 1944 to 1947. In 1947, she began studying at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York. She spent her junior year in France at the University of Grenoble in Grenoble, and at the Sorbonne in Paris in a study-abroad program through Smith College. She transferred to George Washington University in Washington, D.C. and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in French literature in 1951. She later went to George Washington University to take educational classes on American history.