Hillary Clinton might become a professor at Columbia University in New York City

Hillary Clinton is 'in talks' to become a professor at Columbia University in New York City.

Sources speaking with the New York Daily News said the school is considering multiple options with her. These include giving her the role of 'University Professor' and housing her archives there.

The former Secretary of State could teach in one school - such as Columbia Law School or the School of International and Public Affairs - or across many different schools.

'No decisions have been made, but there are talks,' one source told the New York Daily News.

Columbia University declined to comment on the matter.

The former First Lady and 2016 Democratic presidential candidate would join her daughter, Chelsea, at the Ivy League school.

Chelsea has served as an adjunct professor in the Mailman School of Public Health since 2012. The former First Daughter and Clinton Foundation board member received an undergraduate degree from Stanford, master's degrees from Oxford and Columbia and a doctorate from Oxford.

Clinton (left, speaking at Columbia University in 2015) could join her daughter, Chelsea (right), who has served as an adjunct professor in Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health since 2012

Columbia University is one of the eight Ivy League schools. It is in Morningside Heights, a neighborhood of Manhattan, New York

Hillary Clinton received her undergraduate degree in 1969 from Wellesley College, where she wrote her senior thesis on the organizing tactics of activist Saul Alinsky.

She later attended and received a Juris Doctor in 1973 from Yale Law School, where she met her husband, Bill Clinton, the 42nd President of the United States.

She wrote in her memoir, 'What Happened' that she declined to attend Harvard because a professor there told her: 'We don't need any more women at Harvard.'

Clinton previously taught law, along with her husband, at the University of Arkansas in the mid-1970s.

A former student of hers told CNN in 2016: 'She was no-nonsense, strict (on) construction of the law - not a lot of anecdotes - by the book with a feminist bent.'

It is not clear how the move might be received by Columbia students.

A 2016 New York Times piece chronicling the election battle between Clinton and Donald Trump noted that Columbia University, which has a tradition of radical student action, was divisively split between Clinton supporters and Bernie Sanders supporters.

Clinton secured the Democratic Party's nomination over Sanders and lost the election to Republican candidate Trump. She won the popular vote but lost the electoral college.

Hillary Clinton met her husband, Bill (pictured at right with fellow former presidents George W Bush and Barack Obama) at Yale Law School from which she received a Juris Doctor in 1973

She is currently on a book tour to promote her memoir 'What Happened', which chronicles the 2016 Presidential Election.

Clinton attracted some controversy over her initial silence when the New York Times broke the story of decades-long alleging that Harvey Weinstein, a movie mogul and prominent Democrat fundraiser, had a decades-long pattern of sexual harassment and abuse against women.

She remained silent for five days after the scandal broke. She then released a statement.

'I was appalled. It was something that was just intolerable in every way,' she said of Weinstein's alleged behavior. 'And, you know, like so many people who've come forward and spoken out, this was a different side of a person who I and many others had known in the past.'

She told CNN that she planned to donate funds she had received from Weinstein to charity. Weinstein had raised and donated hundreds of thousands of dollars for Clinton over the years.