Facilities

GIA’s Carlsbad location occupies 30 acres of land and includes 19 classrooms, a library containing over 38,000 books, plus magazines, videos, and other media, a museum gallery, bookstore and instruments showroom, student lounge, outdoor basketball and volleyball courts, research and gemological laboratories, administrative offices, and parking for over 1,000 vehicles.

GIA’s New York location occupies nearly 18,000 square feet including 7 classrooms, a library, student lounge, student computer stations, and administrative offices. GIA’s Los Angeles location occupies over 7,000 square feet including 3 classrooms, a library, a student lounge, student computer stations, and administrative offices.

Classroom Capacity
Carlsbad on campus Gemology classrooms and School of Business classrooms hold 24 students, except Pearl Grading Lab class which holds 25. Jewelry Manufacturing Arts classes hold 20 students, except Jewelry Design which holds 27 students. Gemology Lab classes hold up to 32 students.

Los Angeles on campus classrooms hold 24 students. Gemology Lab class holds 30 students. New York classrooms hold 20 students. Traveling Lab classes hold 32 students.

On-Campus Classroom Equipment

School of Business (On campus)

• School of Business classes have an electronic white board, overhead projector, LCD projection system, and laptop computer with Internet access
• The School of Business Computer Lab consists of 20 computer stations equipped with f lat-screen monitors. All computers have high speed Internet access, with Microsoft Office (including MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Publisher) and Adobe CS programs installed.

Graduate Diamonds (On campus)

• Classrooms contain a dual stereomicroscope, Diamondlite, UV lamp and viewing cabinet, which students share.
• Each student work station includes a binocular microscope.
• Students keep tweezers, 10x loupe, pointerprobe, plotting pens, and gem cloth.

Graduate Colored Stones (On campus)

• Classrooms contain a dual stereomicroscope, electronic balance with hydrostatic unit, UV lamp and viewing cabinet, illuminated spectroscope, utility lamp, Chelsea filter, fiberoptic light unit, and a GemeWizard color grading workstation, which students share.
• Each student workstation includes a binocular microscope, utility lamp, polariscope, dichroscope, and a handheld spectroscope.
• Students keep their refractometer, polarizing filter, and refractive index liquid.

Graduate Gemology (On campus)
See Graduate Diamonds and Graduate Colored Stones.

Applied Jewelry Arts (On campus)
Different classrooms are equipped for each segment of the program.

• Students share equipment including wax injection pots, vulcanizers, scissors, pliers, casting machines (centrifugal, vacuum, and induction), scales, mixers, flasks, torches, and computers.
• Student workstations are equipped for each segment of the program with the relevant equipment, including wax working tools, assorted cold carver tools, gauges, 10x loupe, tweezers, gravers, files, Optivisor, burrs, saw blades, f lex shaft with power hand tools, mandrels, scissors, sheers, and PC with CAD/CAM software and f lat screen monitor.

Graduate Jeweler (On campus)

• Each classroom contains a laser welder, steam cleaner, ultrasonic cleaner, pickle pot, rolling mill, and grinding and polishing wheels, which students share.
• Each student workbench includes a torch, flex shaft with power hand tools, bench block, various burrs, and saw blade frames.
• Students keep their Optivisor and toolkit, which contains a variety of files, pliers, gravers, drill bits, hammers, mandrels, tweezers, wheels, and saw blades.

Jewelry Design (On campus)

• Each student workstation is equipped with fluorescent and incandescent lighting.
• Students keep their design tool kit, which contains a variety of paints, pencils, brushes, templates, papers and vellum, and other art tools.

Diamond Grading Lab (Distance Education)

• Classrooms contain a DiamondLite, diamond tester, scale, leverage gauge, UV lamp and viewing cabinet, Optivisor, and a darkfield loupe.
• Each student workstation includes a binocular microscope and tweezers.
• Students keep a lab manual, pointer probe, gem cloth, plotting pen set, table gauge, crown angle card, and a color grading card.

Gem Identification Lab (Distance Education)

• Classrooms contain a table model prism spectroscope, color filter, fiber optic light, UV lamp and viewing cabinet, utility light, and a darkfield loupe.
• Each student workstation includes a binocular microscope, handheld diffraction grating spectroscope, dichroscope, refractometer, refractive index liquid, magnifying eyepiece, polarizing filter, optic figure sphere, polariscope, and tweezers.
• Students keep a penlight, gem cloth, color grading card, and a black pen.

Colored Stone Grading Lab (Distance Education)

• Classrooms contain a GemeWizard color grading workstation.
• Each student workstation includes a binocular microscope or Ott light, tweezers, and a 10x loupe.
• Students keep a lab manual, penlight, gem cloth, color grading card, and a black pen.

Pearl Grading Lab (Distance Education)

• Classrooms contain a pearl gauge.
• Each student workstation includes a binocular microscope or Ott light, and a pearl grading board.
• Students keep a lab manual, pearl color reference charts, and a black pen.

Distance Education Student Workrooms
Classroom equipment is the same as for Lab classes.