Our Education - Your World of Opportunity At GIA, students from all over the world build successful careers in the gems and jewellery field. The Graduate Gemologist (G.G.) diploma which focuses on gem grading and identification is considered the industry’s highest professional credential. With its Jewelry Design and Accredited Jewelry Professional programs, GIA offers training geared to many aspects of the industry.

Groundbreaking Scientific Research for more than 80 years As the global leader in gemmological research, GIA uses its findings to protect the consumer. Using sophisticated technology, institute's researchers analyse thousands of samples each year. When new synthetic gems and artificial enhancement processes enter the marketplace, GIA is there to detect them.

GIA manufactures gemmological instruments used by gem and jewellery professionals everywhere. GIA Instruments’ precision microscope and many other products help them buy, grade and appraise with confidence.

GIA Diamond Grading, Diamond Dossier™ & Gemmological Identification Reports - The World's Premier Gemmological Credentials GIA created the International Diamond Grading System™ and issued the first grading reports in 1955. Today the GIA Diamond Grading Report and Diamond Dossier® are considered the standard for describing and communicating diamond quality. As the world’s most respected gemmological laboratory, GIA is entrusted with grading and identifying more gems than any other lab including the world’s most famous diamonds like the Hope, the Taylor-Burton, the De Beers Millennium Star and the Incomparable. Located in major gem and jewellery centres around the world, GIA laboratories are staffed by expert diamond graders and gemmologists, whose work sets the standard for grading practices worldwide.

Award Winning Quarterly Journal, "Gems & Gemology" GIA disseminates new-found scientific knowledge through the Institute’s educational courses and in speaking engagements and presentations around the world. Furthermore, GIA publishes such information and other news in award-winning technical journals that include Gems & Gemology - a quarterly publication for the GIA alumni association; The Loupe for external readers; alumn.connect an alumni e-newsletter and GIA Insider - another electronic newsletter for an external media that is sent to the trade media and a list of interested subscribers.

Everyday, GIA's expert library staff answers questions from jewellers, gemmologists, scientists and students all over Open to both the general public and members of the trade, GIA’s Richard T. Liddicoat Gemological Library and Information Center is the world’s largest gemmological library. The GIA Museum creates and shares gemmological exhibits with other museums around the world.