Xavier Element

Real clients. Real creative work. Professional experience before graduation.

Take Your Skills Beyond the Classroom.

Xavier Element is not an Art Department program, but it has become an important experiential learning opportunity for our students. Art and Graphic Design students can bring their creative skills into a professional, interdisciplinary environment while collaborating with students in marketing, analytics, business, and other fields.

For our students, Element can provide something especially valuable: the opportunity to work with real clients while still at Xavier. They can develop portfolio work, learn how to communicate with clients, collaborate across disciplines, respond to professional feedback, and see how creative thinking functions within larger marketing and business strategies.

A Student-Led Digital Marketing Agency

Xavier Element is Xavier University's student-led, student-run digital marketing agency and student consultancy. Its team includes more than 30 student consultants who help clients solve business challenges through digital marketing, analytics, and creative design.

Element brings together students who are interested in digital culture, social media, design, marketing, analytics, and emerging trends. Consultants use those interests and skills to produce professional work for businesses and organizations while gaining direct experience outside the classroom.

A Win for Students

Students gain direct, relevant professional experience by working with businesses outside of the classroom. Element consultants work on real projects, communicate with clients, build professional skills, and earn income for the work they produce. The experience provides a bridge between academic learning and the expectations of professional creative and business environments.

Primary Consultancy Services

Element consultants bring a range of creative, strategic, and technical skills to client projects.

The Student Consultant Community

Clients are matched with student consultants whose skills, academic interests, and creative strengths fit the needs of each project. Students then work directly with clients through regular meetings, project development, and ongoing communication.

Consultants are selected by Element's student leaders, faculty advisors, and executive director and receive training across digital marketing services and media-creation platforms. Experienced faculty and staff in marketing, management, entrepreneurship, analytics, and creative design support the student team.

For Art and Graphic Design students, this creates an opportunity to experience how creative professionals actually work: not in isolation, but as part of interdisciplinary teams solving problems for clients and audiences.

Interested in Xavier Element?

Learn more about Xavier Element, meet the current student leadership team, explore its work, and find information about becoming an Element consultant.