Marie graduated from Cornell University with a degree in Agriculture in May of 1916.

Some of the coursework required for this included the following from the Cornell Register of 1915:
Required Subjects. Freshman year: English, course 1, 8 hours; introductory inorganic chemistry, course 1 , 6 hours; agricultural chemistry, course 85 or 6, 4 or 5 hours; biology, course 1, 6 hours; physics, course 2, 5 hours; the farm, course 1, 2 hours. Sophomore year: geology, course 1, 3 hours (optional for students specializing in home economics); physiology, course 3, 12, 20, or 21, 3 to 5 hours; botany, course 1, or zoology, course 1, 5 hours. Junior year: political economy, course 51,6 hours.

Elective Subjects. The remainder of the required one hundred and twenty hours must consist of subjects elected under the following restrictions,
1. Not more than twenty hours may be taken in courses given in other colleges of the University.
2. Before graduation, all students must have passed at least fifteen hours of elective subjects in some one of the following five groups, and at least three hours in each of three of the other groups. The major group of fifteen hours is selected by the student at the beginning of the sophomore year, and in electing subjects in that group, the student must receive the advice and consent of a professor or an assistant professor in charge of a subject within the group and preferably within the department in which the student is intending to specialize.
Group A Farm Crops; Pomology; Soil Technology; Floriculture; Vegetable Gardening.
Group B Animal Husbandry; Poultry Husbandry; Dairy Industry; Entomology.
Group C Agricultural Chemistry; Botany; Plant Breeding; Plant Pathology; Meteorology.
Group D Rural Economy; Rural Education; Farm Management; Extension; Rural Engineering; Drawing.
Group E Forestry; Home Economics; Landscape Art.