Graduated and awarded a bronze medal from École de Médecine.
By July 1871, Mary Putnam Jacobi had graduated from the École de Médecine in Paris, earning a bronze medal for her thesis. Her academic success in a foreign land was the crux of her burgeoning medical career. The award was one of the earliest recognitions of a woman's academic excellence at the institution, highlighting her as a role model for aspiring female medical students and reinforcing her credentials as a pioneering figure in medicine.