Best Evening and Weekend Phlebotomy Classes

What Evening Phlebotomy Classes Look Like

Programs built for working adults follow a few patterns. Knowing them helps you match a class to your week before you look at price.

• Two or three nights a week. Joliet Junior College meets Tuesdays and Thursdays from 5 to 9 p.m., and Erie 1 BOCES near Buffalo meets Tuesday through Thursday from 5:30 to 8:00 p.m.
• One night a week, over a longer stretch. Northwest Career & Technical Center in Vermont meets Tuesdays from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. for 24 weeks. Midland College meets one night a week, 6 to 10 p.m.
• Hybrid nights. Central Piedmont Community College in Charlotte splits 219 contact hours into 69 classroom, 30 online and 120 clinical hours. Robeson Community College runs a night and hybrid cohort from October 2026 to May 2027.

Of the 201 programs here, 148 are non-credit courses, 47 are college certificates and 6 are diplomas. The typical one runs about 11 weeks.

Weekend Phlebotomy Classes and How They Run

Only 45 programs offer weekend sections, so they fill faster and are worth booking early. They come in two shapes.

Long Saturdays for a full semester. St. Philip’s College in San Antonio runs its phlebotomy course on Saturdays, 8.5 hours a day, and Dakota County Technical College in Minnesota fits 48 classroom hours into weekends over 6 weeks, followed by 100 clinical hours with local health systems.

Short weekend bursts. Calhoun Community College in Huntsville meets in 2-hour Saturday sessions for 9 weeks at $799 including the textbook and lab fees. In California, Pro Med Career Institute covers its classroom hours in three consecutive weekends.

The Catch: Clinical Hours Usually Run in the Daytime

This is the part most schedules don’t put in the headline. Classes meet at night, but the hospital or lab where you do supervised draws runs on its own clock.

Program	Class Schedule	Clinical Schedule
Wilkes Community College (NC)	Day or evening	104 clinical hours; evening students must be free 24 daytime hours a week
Surry Community College (NC)	Evening, January to May 2027	56 hours on 7 consecutive weekdays, daytime
St. Philip’s College (TX)	Saturdays	3 weeks at 40 hours a week, Monday to Friday daytime
Ben Franklin Career Center (WV)	Evening, 14 weeks	3 weeks, 5 days a week, 8.5 hours a day
Moberly Area Community College (MO)	Evening or day, hybrid	100 hours, daytime Monday to Friday in the second half of the semester
Midland College (TX)	One night a week, 6-10 pm	64 hours, 3-11 pm or 11 pm-7 am shifts
Flathead Valley Community College (MT)	Weekend, hybrid	100 hours; first and last Saturdays plus arranged hours

Midland and Flathead Valley are the exceptions that keep clinical time off weekday business hours. For most others, plan for one to three weeks of daytime availability near the end. If clinical hours matter most to you, compare the phlebotomy programs with externships.

What Part-Time Programs Cost and What the Fee Covers

Prices in this set run from $180 to $4,200, with a typical published price of $1,530. What’s included varies more than the price does:

• North Carolina’s colleges list $180 tuition for continuing-education phlebotomy. Mayland Community College runs day and evening sections at that rate, with 80 clinical hours.
• Exam included. Midland College lists $1,108 total: $400 classroom, $579 clinical and the $129 NHA exam. Panola College in East Texas lists $1,388 with the NHA test fee included.
• Grant-funded. Northwest Career & Technical Center’s course is valued at $2,175, but students pay $349 for the textbook, practice exam, certification exam and supplies.
• Exam extra. Apollo Career Center in Ohio lists $1,250 tuition with the certification exam not included, and Joliet’s $1,699 leaves out the textbook, CPR and the exam.

Read which line items are in the price before comparing two schools. The phlebotomy training cost guide breaks down what fees usually add.

How Long Part-Time Phlebotomy Training Takes

Fewer class hours per week stretches the calendar. The weekend course at Pro Med fits its classroom portion into three weekends; Robeson’s night and hybrid cohort runs from October 2026 to May 2027; Northwest CTC’s one-night-a-week course runs 24 weeks. Programs that add EKG or lab assistant training run longer still: National Career Education in Citrus Heights offers day and evening tracks of its 720-clock-hour diploma, about 9 months. The phlebotomy training length guide has the national ranges.

Who Evening and Weekend Classes Suit, and What to Check

These classes suit you if you work a day shift and can’t drop it, if you’re a CNA or medical assistant adding blood draws, or if you have kids during the day and a partner home at night. They suit you less if you can’t free up a block of weekday daytime hours at the end.

Before you enroll, check four things:

• the clinical schedule, in hours and days, not only the class nights;
• whether the exam fee is in the price;
• how many draws the program documents, since NHA’s CPT requires at least 30 venipunctures and 10 capillary sticks;
• whether the class nights run all the way through or switch to daytime partway through the term.

Once certified, you’ll find that work schedules vary too. The Bureau of Labor Statistics notes that phlebotomists in hospitals and labs may work nights, weekends and holidays, so a part-time or night-shift job can follow a part-time class. See the best phlebotomy programs for options on any schedule.