"For the most part, college-adjacent hotels have no need to try all that hard. They’ve got a captive audience, and guaranteed occupancy, at least at certain times of the year. So what’s remarkable about the Graduate hotels is that they’re, well, remarkable — to put it simply, they’re better than they need to be, and there’s nothing we love more than that. The Graduate Madison is a block from the flagship campus of the University of Wisconsin, one of the so-called “Public Ivies” — no provincial college, it’s one of America’s intellectual centers, and deserves a properly cosmopolitan hotel to match." - Tablet Hotels