Blackstone Career Institute

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The Blackstone Career Institute, based in Emmaus, Pennsylvania, and founded in 1890, offers distance education programs and home study programs, specializing in courses students can use to study at home and/or take online to advance their careers. Training includes courses that prepare a student for a career as a paralegal or legal assistant, medical transcriptionist, medical biller (billing) and coder (coding), medical office assistant, or dental office assistant.

1 Licensing and Accreditation
2 Academic Offerings
3 Student Services
4 Footnotes
5 External Links

[edit] Licensing and Accreditation

The Blackstone Career Institute is privately licensed by the Pennsylvania Department of Education¹ and accredited by the Accrediting Commission of the Distance Education and Training Council (DETC)², Washington, D.C., and the Middle States Association of Colleges and_Schools³. The Blackstone Career Institute is recognized as an accredited school by the U.S. Department of Education⁴.

[edit] Academic Offerings

Blackstone Career Institute offers home study training and online courses with degrees in the following areas:
• Legal Assistant and Paralegal
• Medical Transcription
• Medical Billing and Coding
• Medical Office Assistant
• Dental Office Assistant

[edit] Student Services

Depending on learning style, a student may choose correspondence-based instruction or electronic instruction (online courses) through the Blackstone Online Student Center.

[edit] Footnotes

1. Pennsylvania Department of Education (http://www.pde.state.pa.us/)
2. Distance Education and Training Council (http://www.detc.org/)
3. Middle States Commission on Secondary Schools (http://www.middlestates.org/)
4. U.S. Department of Education (http://www.ed.gov/index.jhtml)

[edit] External Links

• Blackstone Career Institute: http://blackstone.edu
• Blackstone Paralegal Training and Advanced Law Courses: http://blackstonelaw.com
• American Academy of Independent Studies: http://www.123ce.com/
• U.S. Department of Education directory: http://www.ope.ed.gov/accreditation/
• Pennsylvania Department of Education Educational Entities: http://edna.ed.state.pa.us/EntitySearch.asp