About Dr Goh Keng Swee-Academic

Anglo-chinese primary and secondary

Dr Goh Keng Swee studied at the Anglo-chinese Primary School and the Anglo-Chinese Secondary School between 1927 and 1936 where he was second in his class in the Senior cambridge Examinations. Dr Goh Keng Swee then went on to graduate from Raffles College in 1939 with a Class II Diploma in Arts with a special distinction in economics. Dr Goh Keng Swee won a scholarship which enabled him to further his studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He graduated with first class honours in economics in 1951, and won the William farr Prize for achieving the highest marks in statistics. In 1954, Dr Goh Keng Swee was return to LSE for doctoral studies with the help of a University of London scholarship. He completed his Ph.D. in Economics in 1956.