From the 18th-floor Panorama Room at the Graduate Roosevelt Island, the Manhattan skyline sparkles against the sunset. Glasses clink and shakers clack as bartenders race to keep up with the thirsty crowd reclining on velvet sofas and drinking in the view. Not bad for an on-campus crash pad.

Since 2014, Graduate Hotels has expanded from a handful of refurbished properties in college towns such as Ann Arbor, Michigan, and Athens, Georgia, to become a 32-location hospitality empire that extends across the Atlantic to the U.K. "We've added 19 properties since 2019," says Kevin Osterhaus, president of the brand. "But even at 32 hotels and growing, people are still learning about us."

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