GIA Announces New Bangkok Campus Location and Class Schedule

CARLSBAD, Calif. – Sept. 1, 2011 – The GIA (Gemological Institute of America) announced today the new location of its education campus in Bangkok, Thailand, which will officially open on Sept. 29. The campus will be located in the same building as the GIA Laboratory and Research Center in Bangkok.

In addition, the class schedule for the remainder of 2011 and all of 2012 for the Bangkok campus has been released.

Starting in October, a variety of GIA lab classes and programs will begin at the new campus location including; diamond grading, gem identification, colored stone and pearl grading lab classes. The programs include the GIA Graduate Gemologist and Graduate Diamond program.

“Thailand is the world’s leading gemstone trading and cutting center and a priority for GIA,” said Bev Hori, GIA chief learning officer and vice president of Education. “This new campus location will provide students with significant benefits, including close proximity to our laboratory and research facility, access to our industry experts, and exposure to the latest gemological discoveries as they occur.”

The new location and telephone number of the GIA campus in Bangkok is:

U Chu Liang Building, 2nd Floor
968 Rama 4 Road, Silom, Bangrak
Bangkok 10500, Thailand
Phone: 66 2632 4590

For more information about the GIA class schedule in Bangkok, email giabkkedu@gia.edu  or visit www.giathai.net or www.gia.edu.