Arizona State University (ASU) is located in Phoenix, the capital of Arizona. It is a public comprehensive university in the United States and a world-class research university. For five consecutive years from 2015 to 2019, it was ranked No. 1 in the "Most Innovative University in America" by U.S. News and World Report. 

The school attaches great importance to the boundary-pushing and interdisciplinary nature of its disciplines. Its tourism discipline focuses on the frontier issues of global tourism such as tourism and environmental sustainability. In the 2018 CWUR World University Rankings, the university ranks 7th in the world for its hotels, leisure, sports and tourism majors, and 2nd in the United States. The school attaches great importance to cultivating students' independent innovation ability. It ranked 5th as the "Most Favored Universities by Employers" in the United States by the Wall Street Journal in 2015.