Life as an MU Student Ambassador

MU's Student Ambassador program is a new innovation to involve current students into administration activities to give them work experience during their studies, both on and off campus.

Charges include travelling to their homelands such as Serbia, Slovakia, and Germany to present MU to high school students as well as informing potential students what their future could hold during our quarterly information evenings on Kahlenberg. 

Maya Loacker, a BBA student in her second semester, is among this inagural group of student ambassadors. She had this to say about their important role at MU:

''The student ambassador program is something new the MU marketing department came up with this year. The main idea is to give selected students who have an interest in the department a chance to gain invaluable inside perspective into what happens when it comes to marketing and promoting their own university. In addition, we can come up with new ideas and work with that material – after all: we students were all once in the position of choosing where we wanted to study and knew what we were looking for.

What started very small is now a project that already has 6 ambassadors from both the BBA and MSc programs. The first step is to apply, and definitely take it seriously as word has spread and students are eager to be part of it. Your personality and disposition should convince that it really is something you want to dedicate some work to.

It mainly consists in aiding the marketing team to hold presentations for future students, and to give them on your own - in Austria and also in foreign countries, which gives you the opportunity to travel while working. Sometimes you might even hold a presentation on your own in your home country or where you feel at ease; in those cases there is also a financial bonus for your work.

For me, the best part is being able to contribute with my own ideas, start a project and count with help and support from the marketing department to turn it into something great and valuable. It is an inviting atmosphere, everyone has an open ear and is ready to discuss and talk about what could be done - sometimes even while sipping on delicious cocktails. As a final result, we students are the ones who benefit the most by promoting the name of our university. It will all count when we apply for jobs and internships before and after graduation.

MU being an established and well known university will open many doors for us as well as the fact of having gathered a lot of experience whilst being a student ambassador.''

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MSc student Aleksandra Tanackovic has already been on the road this semester, presenting MU to audiences at 5 Belgrade high schools in her native Serbia. ''The whole experience of organizing my road trip and holding presentations was very exciting!'' said Aleksandra, who noted that some of the students she spoke to attended MU's bachelor information evening on campus.

BBA students Daniel Heil and Roman Kollár have done likewise in their respective Germany and Slovakia, using their homeland connections to spread word of MU. Newest ambassadors Miriam Auer and Nariman Zeynalli have recently joined the group, and are already deep into activity planning for the coming year. 

We look forward to sending our ambassadors far and wide in 2012!