page_title: Swansea University
section_title: Hillary Rodham Clinton School of Law
hierarchical_section_title: Swansea University / Organisation and administration / Colleges / Hillary Rodham Clinton School of Law
caption_attribution_description: English: Hillary Clinton at Swansea University
context_page_description: Swansea University is a public research university located in Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom. It was chartered as University College of Swansea in 1920, as the fourth college of the University of Wales. In 1996, it changed its name to the University of Wales Swansea following structural changes within the University of Wales. The title of Swansea University was formally adopted on 1 September 2007 when the University of Wales became a non-membership confederal institution and the former members became universities in their own right.
  Swansea University has 8 colleges spread across its two campuses which are located on the coastline of Swansea Bay. The Singleton Park Campus is set in the grounds of Singleton Park to the west of Swansea city centre. The £450 million Bay Campus, which opened in September 2015, is located adjacent to Jersey Marine Beach to the east of Swansea city centre which is in the Neath Port Talbot Area.
  It is the third largest university in Wales in terms of number of students. It currently offers about 330 undergraduate courses and 120 post-graduate courses to 20,620 undergraduate and postgraduate students.
context_section_description: The Hillary Rodham Clinton School of Law is the largest Law School in Wales and ranks third in the UK for Criminology and twenty-second in the UK for Law (The Times Good University Guide 2019). Swansea University opened its School of Law in 1994, in order to complement its departments in Engineering, the Sciences and Arts and Humanities. Known previously as the College of Law and Criminology, the School's name changed on 14 October 2017, as part of a ceremony including the conferment of an honorary doctorate on Hillary Rodham Clinton.
  The School is situated at the Singleton Campus but intends to move to purpose-built premises on the University's Bay Campus within the next few years. This new development will house commercial law firms, technology companies, national and international agencies, along with the academics and students of the School.
  Teaching at the School of Law comprises Undergraduate, Postgraduate and Professional Courses. Undergraduate programmes include qualifying law degrees, criminology degrees and joint honours programmes. Postgraduate programmes include LLMs in shipping and trade, Human Rights, an MA in Applied Criminal Justice and Criminology and research degrees. Professional courses on offer include the Graduate Diploma in Law and the Legal Practice Course. Students are taught in lectures, discussion groups and interactive seminars by academics with extensive industry experience.
  In the Research Excellence Framework 2014, 96% of School research was recognised as demonstrating an international standard. This research encompasses the School's numerous research centres including The Swansea University Legal Centre, Centre for Criminal Justice and Criminology, Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Law, Cyber Threats Intelligence Centre, The Institute of International Shipping and Trade Law and the Wales Observatory on Human Rights of Children and Young People.
caption: Hillary Clinton at Swansea University
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