The Gemological Institute of America’s new Bangkok educational campus will open officially on September 29, the GIA announced this week. The campus will be located in the same building as the GIA Laboratory and Research Center in Bangkok.

The new campus will offer, a variety of GIA lab classes and programs: diamond grading, gem identification, colored stone and pearl grading lab classes, as well as the GIA Graduate Gemologist and Graduate Diamond program.

Bev Hori, the GIA’s vice president of education, called Thailand “the world’s leading gemstone trading and cutting center and a priority for GIA.”