Medicine has been the focal point of learning, teaching and research at the University of Lübeck. In both 2006 and 2009, the University of Lübeck remains No. 1 in medicine among all universities in Germany, Austria and Switzerland according to the CHE Hochschulranking. In Computer Science and Molecular Life Science, the University was ranked No. 2 in the 2009 evaluation.The university has a Faculty of Medicine and a Faculty of Technology and Natural Sciences. It offers professional degree programme in medicine; bachelor and master programmes in computer science, molecular life science, computational life science and medical engineering. Since winter semester 2007/2008, the first 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.