Since 2024, Andrea Kurz, Vice-Chair for Research in the Anesthesiology Institute at the Cleveland Clinic,[6] has been rector of the Medical University of Graz.

[7] His second term began on 15 February 2020 with Vice Rectors Caroline Schober-Trummler (Research and International), Andreas Leithner (Clinical Affairs), Sabine Vogl (Studies and Teaching), and Birgit Hochenegger-Stoirer (Financial Management, Law, and Digitalization).

Andrea Kurz was elected by the university council as Hellmut Samonigg's successor starting on 15 February 2024.

[10] Since 1 March 2023 the University Council has included Iris Eisenberger, Alfred Gutschelhofer, Michael Heinisch (Vorsitzender), Sylvia Knapp (Stv.

In the last ÖH election in 2019, the list herzlinks.at, which is part of the Austrian National Union of Socialist Students and part of the Verband Sozialistischer Studentinnen und Studenten Österreichs, received 70.45% of the votes (seven mandates), while the list JUNOS - Junge liberale Studierende received 19.86% (two mandates).

On 8 October 2012 the very first white coat ceremony (WCC) in Austria was held as a cooperative project with the Austrian National Union of Students at the Medical University of Graz.