 Due to its outstanding faculty members and students, the Tsinghua University School of Law has risen to become one of the leading law schools in China and since 2012, has been consistently ranked as the best or the second-best law school in mainland China by QS World University Rankings.The Graduate School at Shenzhen was jointly founded by Tsinghua University and the Shenzhen Municipal Government.The school is directly affiliated with Tsinghua University in Beijing.