Earn the essential skills you need for a career in creating jewelry – from shaping a variety of rings to advanced stone setting and repair.

Learn fancy-shape stone setting engineering for faceted bezel, V-prong, and bar channel tapered baguette settings. Create a three-stone ring with cubic zircona, synthetic corundum or spinel, or your own gemstones.

Practice, evaluate, and improve your work with objective quality standards used in the industry and by leading design houses.

Hand-craft your own half-round decorative band by practicing with bronze and brass. Learn skills like milling a half-round wire, forming a ring blank, soldering, finishing, and more.

Learn to perform intricate tasks and repairs quickly and efficiently with a laser welder.

Create a handmade chain and toggle clasp in sterling silver. Learn skills like soldering, chain assembly, forming a wire loop, fusing metal with a torch, and making a toggle clasp

Join a prestigious, global network of GIA students and alumni with the opportunity to make impactful professional connections for life.

Explore the plasticity of metal and form a pair of self-closing hoop earrings using brass sheet. Learn skills like forming fundamentals, how to apply a pattern, and how to create reusable templates.

Learn from expert instructors with years of trade experience who can help you refine your skills and reach your educational goals with personalized attention.

Measure and form interlocking links to create a mesh chain from brass wire. Learn skills like precision soldering and fitting and how to fabricate and assemble interlocking links.

Work at your own dedicated workstation stocked with hand tools you will take with you into your career and professional-quality power tools for your personal and classroom use. 

Learn to move metal with precise strokes of a hammer to forge the shape of this timeless ring. Skills include fabrication, sawing, and creating a peg to set a pearl or bead.

Learn in modern classrooms with projected instructor demonstrations and your own workstation outfitted with binocular microscopes to view the fine details.

Use sterling silver to create this vintage clasp – one of the strongest and most versatile closures. Learn skills like precise sawing and filing of matching parts and joining using cold connection