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Ingold attended a girls' grammar school in Lewisham, and then had two years of private education in Horsham. She then moved to the [[North London Collegiate School]] after being awarded a Clothworker's Scholarship.
 
As an undergraduate at [[Royal Holloway College]] Ingold attained a BSc Hons in Chemistry (1916-1920) before completing her doctorate in 1923 at [[Imperial College London]]. As the doctoral degree was only introduced to British Universities in 1917<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.vitae.ac.uk/vitae-publications/blogs/history-of-phd.pdf/@@download/file/History%20of%20PhD.pdf|format=PDF|title=100 Years of the PhD in the UK|website=Vitae.ac.uk|accessdate=9 April 2018}}</ref> she was one of the earliest students to qualify. Her PhD project was on [[Tautomer|tautomers]], isomers of molecules which differ only in the position of a labile hydrogen atom. Her doctoral supervisor was [[Martha Whiteley]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.ch.imperial.ac.uk/rzepa/blog/?p=5483|title=The dawn of organic reaction mechanism: the prequel.|last=Henry|first=Rzepa,|date=2011-11-13|work=Henry Rzepa|access-date=2017-11-01|language=en-US}}</ref>
 
Her subsidiary subject was physics and this led to her research in [[physical organic chemistry]] and [[quantum mechanics]].<ref name="Barrett2017"/>