The University of Lübeck is a research university in Lübeck, Northern Germany which focuses almost entirely on medicine and sciences with applications in medicine.

1 in medicine among all universities in Germany, Austria and Switzerland according to the CHE Hochschulranking.

Additionally, since 2013 the university extended its portfolio by establishing a department of psychology and has been offering Bachelor and master's degrees in psychology since then.

[5] Further, in winter semester 2007/2008, the PhD programme "Computing in Medicine and Life Sciences" was introduced with the establishment of the Graduate School for Computing in Medicine and Life Sciences at the university.

It hosts lab space and offices for 33 research groups working on the intersection of biomedicine and neuroscience.