Blackstone Career Institute

Established in 1890, the Blackstone Career Institute is a distance education institution offering a variety of programs for career advancement and training. The school operates out of Allentown, Pennsylvania, but students take courses from home or online, wherever in the world they may be located. The Blackstone Career Institute offers programs to prepare students for careers as medical transcriptionists, medical office assistants, medical coders and billers, legal assistants or paralegals, or dental office assistants. Students have the option of taking these courses online or via correspondence-based instruction.

Blackstone offers several paralegal continuing education programs for certified paralegals seeking CLE hours. Paralegal continuing education course help develop new skills and specialized knowledge designed to help student advance their careers. Students in this program receive a e-textbook, ongoing support from their instructor, and access to Blackstone's online student center. Each course completed is worth 20 hours toward the mandatory 50 hours of CLE required for recertification through the National Association of Legal Assistants (NALA). Paralegal continuing education courses are offered in Business & Corporate Law, Civil Litigation, Real Estate Law, Personal Injury/Torts, Practical Bankruptcy Law, Family Law, Criminal Law, and Wills, Trusts & Estates.

Blackstone offers career-focused programs to meet the needs of military personnel. Deployments, constant moving from one place to another, challenges of every day military life. These are just a few of the unique circumstances that military personnel face. Blackstone's degrees and courses are uniquely designed to address the needs of military personnel and their families. All courses and programs designed for military personnel are affordable, flexible, career-focused and can become completed in just a year.

Home study and online courses are offered in the following areas: