Coming from an academically high-achieving family, Dag Hammarskjöld enrolled without delay when he was eighteen in Uppsala University and completed in 1925, with honours, a Bachelor of Arts degree, majoring in Linguistics, Literature and History. After that he went on to pursue a degree in economics and completed a Bachelor of Laws degree in 1930.
Hammarskjöld then moved to Stockholm, where he became a secretary of a governmental committee on unemployment and received his doctoral degree in economics from the University of Stockholm. He went on to assume the responsibilities of Assistant Professor of Political Economics and taught at the University of Stockholm for one year.