Higher Education Marketing Agency

When Marketing Feels Personal, Prospective Students Connect

You’re not just looking for a marketing agency, you’re looking for a partner who can differentiate your college, increase enrollment, and help you get real results from your education marketing investments. Mediocre won’t cut it. Ordinary need not apply.

At Celsius Marketing and Interactive, we specialize in higher education marketing that increases enrollment. We help colleges, universities, and career schools grow by turning interest into action, and action into enrollment.

Our education marketing strategies are grounded in data, technology, and behavioral insights, not guesswork, so you can feel confident in your investment. But the real difference? We know how to make it personal. When students feel seen, understood, and inspired, they’re far more likely to take the next step.

We don’t rely on guesswork. We use data, smart technology, and behavioral insights to create messaging and visuals that make people move toward your brand. But what truly sets us apart?


Campaigns that deliver and elevate

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Higher Ed Is Our Major.

We’re a full-service marketing agency with a hyper focus on education. And we do it exceptionally well.

We understand that a high school senior, a 25-year-old career shifter, and a working parent all have different motivations. Our campaigns aren’t built on templates or “good enough” thinking. They’re built around research, empathy, and execution.

Our creative isn’t just pretty. It performs. And our clients don’t just approve our work, they champion it.

In over 20 years we’ve mastered:

  • Moving prospects from first click to campus tour to enrollment
  • Reaching the right students with messaging that truly connects
  • Engaging diverse audiences with hyper-focused, inclusive content
  • Telling your story in a way that feels personal and looks sharp
  • Using AI to deliver smart, tailored emails and campaigns
  • Making better media buys with smarter geographic data

What Happens
When You Work With
Higher Education Experts:

Increase student inquiries with targeted, full-funnel campaigns

Improve lead quality with sharper segmentation and message alignment

Boost conversion rates with content built for the way students make decisions

Engage prospects through channels and creative that actually works

Stand apart from other schools with brand-driven, design-forward campaigns

Services

Digital Marketing & Advertising

No two clients are exactly alike; let us get to know you so we can leverage our combined backgrounds to strategize and formulate an effective plan to reach your goals.

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Website Design & Web Development

Content is king and can make or break your rankings and online presence. Our interactive media team works hand-in-hand with our SEO professionals to create custom solutions to meet your needs through responsive site design, organic and paid advertising, and search optimization.

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Branding & Creative

Don’t just be seen, be remembered through stimulating motion graphics and video or captivating photography with the power to connect and communicate with your audience.

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Multimedia & Video Production

Set your brand in motion and connect with your audience through the power of multimedia and video storytelling.

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Branded Spaces

Extend your branding with environmental design to engage and inform, attract talent and customers, and increase productivity.

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Database & Email Marketing

Utilizing SEO, blogs, social media, video, lead nurturing, and more, we help your business resonate with your audience and stand apart from the crowd.

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SEO & Content Strategy

Our experience in planning and placing both traditional and interactive media means they’ll work in tandem for optimal exposure. Plus, the art of negotiation is in our blood. Trust us, we’ll maximize your budget.

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Social Media

Now, more than ever, social media has become intertwined with our daily lives and can be a powerful communication tool to engage with your audience. We can help you create riveting content and manage social strategies that produce results.

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Education Marketing
Strategies with Proven Results

Every project starts with data. But that’s only the beginning.

We turn data into college and university marketing strategies with proven results, ones that bring clarity to your message, direction to your campaigns, and creative that actually connects with students.

We specialize in higher education marketing that increases enrollment by meeting students where they are and speaking to what they care about. Whether you’re trying to reach Gen Z, adult learners, or multicultural audiences, we help you say the right thing in the right way.

The Path to Enrollment

From first click to their first class, here’s how we help you fill seats.

At Celsius Marketing, we turn interest into enrollment using a proven strategy built for career and higher education. No guesswork. No fluff. Just smart moves that move students forward.

Your Brand Doesn’t Graduate at Enrollment

Most agencies stop at enrollment. We don’t.

At Celsius, we help you stay connected with students after they’re in, through powerful on-campus messaging, environmental branding, and retention strategies that actually work.

This Isn’t Talk.
It’s a Track Record.

We’ve helped schools across the country grow enrollment, improve ROI, and build stronger brands, even in saturated markets.

We don’t just market your logo. We build something students can trust, relate to, and remember.

Because a logo doesn’t convert. A brand does.

We Lead Our Partners To:

  • Clearer positioning
  • Higher lead flow
  • Increased conversions
  • Real growth through improved retention

And we do it with a team that listens, collaborates, and thinks far beyond the institutional norm.

A lot of agencies talk strategy. Few show the work to back it up. If you’re considering a partner that can’t show you real creative, ask yourself why.

Our Work

Web / Video

Iowa State
University

Web / Video

Rocky Mtn.
College of
Art and Design

Branding / Web / Marketing

University
of Silicon
Valley

Web / Video

J-Tech
Institute

At Celsius Marketing Interactive, we don’t hide behind buzzwords or vague promises. You’ll see bold campaigns, award-winning design, and messaging that actually connects. We build brands students remember, and trust.

Because targeted strategy without bold execution doesn’t convert.

Education is Our Lane.
Flying Hippo is Our Wing
for Everything Else.

We stay laser-focused on higher ed for one reason: results. But if you’re outside the space, our brilliant sister agency, Flying Hippo, has the creative muscle to take your brand wherever it needs to go.

Clients

Mind if we name drop a bit?

You might spot a few familiar faces while others, thanks to our magic touch, are on their way to stardom.

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Affiliations & Associates

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