Management Masters degrees

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[TEXT: Postgraduate experiences at the School of Management

>> MEREDITH: It's a really really special place. I was not expecting to learn the things that I learned along the way, you know. I was expecting to get a degree, and I got so much more than that. I got a community. I got family and friends here, my academic family. I wasn't really expecting to fall in love with St Andrews, but St Andrews is an easy place to fall in love with I think.

>>LARS: Student satisfaction was really important, so when I was looking at rankings, student satisfaction was really important to me. University quality, obviously, its reputation. Being in Scotland, I think, that was a fact as well.

>>MEREDITH: I really enjoy being able to feel like I'm part of a community, and I thought a smaller town versus something bigger would allow me to find a better community quicker.

>>CHRISTOPH: Well that was one of the first times that I got food for thought from so many people with different cultural backgrounds from different nationalities, and I think that taught me a lot about life and helped me now in my career where I basically work in a very international environment.

>>MEREDITH: Getting to learn from people from all over the world. I mean, I had professors from, you know, six or seven different countries and classmates from just the same. I mean, more countries than I could even count.

>>ANNELIES: I think the best part about my experience was the people in terms of my lecturers - they were so friendly, they couldn't do enough to help me. They were so supportive.

>>EDOUARD: The entrepreneurship was very challenging and very full of hands-on experience that can be reused later in a professional setting.

>>ELISABETH: It gave me so much not just in academia but also in my personal development.

>>CHRISTOPH: First of all, I learned a couple of hard skills here that prepared me for my career afterwards, but mainly I would say the soft skills, like how to do a presentation properly, how to frame an argument, how to structure a thesis. 

>>LARS: You only change your habits, your way thinking, when you get outside of your comfort zone, and that's what they told us in the beginning: they would push us outside of our comfort zone. And looking back at what happened, this is what they did, and that is what you need to take the next step.

>>DITSAOIA: I already got a job. Graduating from such a well-known, well-researched university helps a lot. You don't have to say much, you just say I graduated from St Andrews and people just "Oh", and that's great, that's helped a lot, and I already got a job in a management associate programme back home, but its their international companies.

>>LARS: I'm still planning to found my own company, and I want to go into the sustainability there actually, because that's what the teaching here was very focusing on: this responsible enterprise and also relating everything back to climate change and where we can be more sustainable, how it can be more sustainable in business. And that's what this university changed in my perspective.

>>EDOUARD: So my next step is to start in January in Switzerland as a strategic buyer, so procurement job.

>>CHRISTOPH: I studied marketing as a postgraduate degree - Masters degree - in 2013. Afterwards, I went on to work at one of the big six media agencies for about a year, and then I switched over to Google, first of all at Google Ireland for two years, and then I moved to Hamburg to work for Google there.

>>DITSAOIA: Anything with well-established traditions, and St Andrews has it all. I was really proud to be a student here when I got here.

>>LARS: Didn't only learn in class, but for my life made some really intense experiences. That's what St Andrews is about, it's about learning and making those friendships and relationships which are important for life.

>>MEREDITH: I got to do a lot of really nice cool things. I got to do a lot of traveling, so it was a very exciting time.

>>ANNELIES: And in terms of all of the friends I made: I thought coming on Masters degree, I'd simply just make friends who were postgraduates, but I have so many undergraduate friends from all my different sports societies that I'm a part of and also other things that I do outside of university. And it's great to kind of have that and also the academic family aspect of that, I'm actually really close with my academic family now, and we're all really great friends, and it's thanks to St Andrews that I really got to meet all those different types of people.

>>DITSAOIA: There's so much memories in this one year. It was so much more than one year. I felt like I've been here for at least five years, and every memory is so precious.

>>ELISABETH: My one word to describe St Andrews is: unique experience. And you cannot possibly have that somewhere else because the town is so unique. Student life is great. It's outstanding, and it's just making it really a home.

>>DITSAOIA: The town. The people. Faculty members. Friends. International. Traditions. The city itself. It has been amazing.

- The best year of my life. It's a short year. It's a hard year. There is some stress, but it's 100% worth it. The friendships you make and the world-class teachers we have here make it so much worth it. 

>>ANNALIES: It's the best decision I ever made, and it's the most friendly place. It's the most welcoming place. And I've got so many memories that I'll treasure for life.

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