Compare commutable Green Bay-area programs, schedules, clinical practice, and local pay
A cheap, short class is easy to find in Green Bay. A class that fits your work schedule, gives you enough live draws, and leaves you eligible for a national exam takes more checking. Phlebotomy training typically runs 4 to 16 weeks, or 40 to 200 hours, so the real differences between programs come down to total cost, class timing, and access to clinical sites.
Wisconsin does not license phlebotomists, which means the credential employers ask for is a national certification such as the NHA CPT or ASCP PBT. A certificate that does not qualify you to sit one of those exams is a poor buy at any price.
Every verified option below comes from a Wisconsin technical college: Northeast Wisconsin Technical College (NWTC) in Green Bay and online, and Fox Valley Technical College at its Appleton and Oshkosh campuses south of the city. NWTC's credit certificate and Fox Valley's specimen processor program follow a college course structure, while NWTC's online continuing-education course charges one flat fee and gives you a longer window to finish. The research found no private training center or hospital program with published details, and the American Red Cross Northeast Chapter in Green Bay does not list a phlebotomy class, so confirm current cost and start dates directly with each school before you enroll.
| Program | Provider Type | Location | Length | Published Cost | Format |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NWTC Phlebotomy course | Technical college course | Green Bay, WI | 8 weeks | $446.00 | Blended (less than 50% online) |
| NWTC Phlebotomy Certificate | Technical college certificate | Green Bay, WI | 6 credits over two 8-week terms | Not published | Online coursework; in-person career experience may be required |
| NWTC Certified Phlebotomy Technician career-training course | Technical college continuing-education course | Online (offered through NWTC) | 200 course hours; up to 12 months to complete | $2,395.00 | Online |
| Fox Valley Technical College Phlebotomist/Specimen Processor | Technical college program | Appleton, WI and Oshkosh, WI | 81 instructional hours (27 Basic Lab Skills plus 54 Phlebotomy) | $834.87 | Online and in-person |
NWTC's phlebotomy certificate is a six-credit sequence run in two eight-week sessions. Medical Terminology (3 credits) comes first; Basic Lab Skills (10-513-110, 1 credit) and Phlebotomy (10-513-111, 2 credits) run together in the second session. Both are listed as blended, with less than half of the work online, so plan on regular trips to the Green Bay campus rather than a fully remote program.
Northeast Wisconsin Technical College lists an estimated program cost of about $1,338 for Wisconsin residents, built from the six required credits at the published estimate of $223 per credit. That is an estimate before additional fees, and NWTC's public pages do not break it into separate tuition, student fee, book, supply, uniform, or background check lines. Wisconsin residency is assumed throughout, so if you live outside the state, ask for a residency-adjusted quote before you budget. Ask an advisor for a written cost sheet as well; books and program supplies are usually purchased separately from tuition.
Course-level listings show $223 for Basic Lab Skills and $446 for Phlebotomy. Added together, those sections come to $669, well below the $1,338 program estimate. The two figures measure different things: the section listings reflect only the per-course instructional estimate for Wisconsin residents, while the program total appears to fold in charges the section listings leave out. NWTC does not publish a line-by-line reconciliation of the difference. An older $1,462 figure also circulates in third-party listings; it does not match the current program page, and the next section explains the gap.
Expect a mix of delivery. The Fall 2026 Basic Lab Skills section ran August 17 to October 12 with online activity plus Tuesday and Thursday meetings at the NWTC Green Bay campus. A 2026 Fall Session 2 Phlebotomy section ran October 21 to December 18, again blended with less than 50% online. In practice, that means reading and quizzes at home, with hands-on lab time scheduled on campus. In the fall schedule the two courses land in different sessions, so confirm the sequence with an advisor before registering.
Phlebotomy training increasingly runs in short, stacked sessions rather than full semesters, and Green Bay's main college option is built that way. Northeast Wisconsin Technical College builds its Phlebotomy Certificate from two consecutive eight-week sessions, which puts nominal completion at roughly 16 weeks for a 6-credit certificate.
Medical Terminology (3 credits) runs first. Basic Lab Skills (1 credit) and Phlebotomy (2 credits) run together in the second session, and the two must be taken as corequisites. A grade of C or better is required in all three; a failed course can be repeated, though that pushes your finish date out. College 101 is a separate NWTC graduation requirement and sits outside the 6 program credits. Not every start date will line up into a clean 16 calendar weeks, so confirm the sequence with an advisor before you plan around a finish date.
The Phlebotomy course sections scheduled for fall 2026 were daytime only, delivered as hybrid classes at the Green Bay Campus with an online component:
No evening, weekend, or separate accelerated Phlebotomy section is confirmed for 2026. The eight-week session format is itself the compressed option, and NWTC runs most of its classes on that calendar. Session 2 was listed for students already accepted into the Phlebotomy Certificate, so acceptance has to come before you can register for the Phlebotomy course itself.
If a daytime schedule does not work, NWTC also offers a separate online Certified Phlebotomy Technician career-training course: 200 course hours, up to 12 months to finish, open enrollment, exam voucher included. It is not the 6-credit campus certificate, and its listed prerequisite is a high school diploma or equivalent.
You must be 18 to take the Phlebotomy course, though Medical Terminology and Basic Lab Skills are open to students of any age. Clinical-side compliance in NWTC's lab programs has included a yearly TB skin test and annual influenza vaccination, with the current immunization list maintained in the college's student portal. Background check procedures and deadlines are handled through NWTC's background check and health records office rather than the program page, so ask early.
The NHA CPT exam expects 30 successful venipunctures and 10 capillary sticks. AMT's RPT benchmark is 50 venipunctures and 10 skin punctures, and ASCP's PBT route calls for 100 blood collections plus 100 clinical hours. Those are exam eligibility targets, not a published NWTC syllabus.
At NWTC, the Phlebotomy Certificate is a 6-credit program that covers routine venipuncture, routine capillary puncture, and special collection procedures. Most phlebotomy courses start with practice arms and simulation in the lab, then move to supervised draws on live patients, with an instructor or clinical preceptor checking technique before a student works alone. NWTC's public certificate page does not publish a required number of successful venipunctures or capillary sticks. If you need a draw count for a national exam application, ask the program coordinator how logs are handled before you enroll.
NWTC says an in-person career experience such as an internship or practicum may be required for online coursework, but its certificate page does not establish the hours, the draw minimums, or whether placement is guaranteed. The college also notes that students may need their own transportation, that clinical sites can be outside Green Bay, and that an AHA BLS CPR card and immunization documentation, including annual influenza vaccination, may be required.
For a sense of how NWTC structures clinical rotations, its Medical Laboratory Technician handbook describes a separate 17-week assignment at 32 hours per week (544 scheduled hours if all 17 weeks run at that rate), with rotations through chemistry, hematology, urinalysis, blood bank, and phlebotomy. That is the MLT program, not the standalone phlebotomy certificate. The same handbook lists prior affiliating agencies such as Bellin Hospital, Bellin Oconto, Bellin Health Clinics, Aurora BayCare, Aurora Bay Area, Ascension Calumet Hospital-LabCorp, and Aurora Oshkosh, while cautioning that sites change yearly.
A program without a clinical component can still teach technique, but you may need to arrange live draws elsewhere to satisfy NHA, AMT, or ASCP eligibility.
Most phlebotomy training runs 4 to 16 weeks from first class to exam eligibility, and the steps follow the same order at nearly every program. Use the timing below as general guidance. Program-specific lengths are in the schedule section, and the clinical and certification sections explain steps 3 and 4 in more detail.
Wisconsin does not license phlebotomists (only California, Louisiana, Nevada, and Washington do), but employers expect a national certification, so see the Wisconsin state page for the full rules. The four exams below differ mainly in how they count your training and how often you renew. NWTC reports a 100% first-time pass rate for its phlebotomy program (2025), but the program page we reviewed does not name which exam that figure refers to, nor does it say graduates are eligible for or prepared to sit the NHA CPT, ASCP PBT, AMT RPT, or NCCT NCPT. Ask the college which exam its graduates take before you enroll.
| Exam | Certifying body | Eligibility for program graduates | Exam fee | Renewal |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NHA CPT | National Healthcareer Association (NHA) | High school diploma plus a phlebotomy program completed within the past 5 years, with 30 venipunctures and 10 capillary sticks on live individuals. Work-experience routes may also apply. | $134 | Every 2 years with 10 continuing-education credits |
| ASCP PBT | ASCP Board of Certification | High school diploma plus one of seven routes, including an approved phlebotomy program, a structured 40-hour program with 100 blood collections, or qualifying work experience. | $155 | Every 3 years through the Credential Maintenance Program (9 CMP points) |
| AMT RPT | American Medical Technologists (AMT) | Completion of an approved program plus 30 venipunctures and 10 skin punctures, or a qualifying experience route. | $135 | Annual renewal fee plus 24 continuing-competency points per 3-year cycle |
| NCCT NCPT | National Center for Competency Testing (NCCT) | Completion of an authorized program, apprenticeship, or 1 year (2,080 hours) of qualifying experience within the past 5 years. | $119 | Annual continuing education and annual recertification fee |
Phlebotomy jobs in Green Bay sit inside three kinds of workplaces: hospital labs, where you draw from admitted patients at the bedside; outpatient clinic and lab draw stations, where scheduled patients come to you; and donor centers, where the work is whole-blood and apheresis collection rather than diagnostic specimens. The skills overlap, but the pace and patient mix differ a lot, and that is worth weighing before you apply.
Bellin Health in Green Bay hires under both the phlebotomist and clinical lab assistant titles.1 Aurora BayCare Medical Center, at 2845 Greenbrier Road on the city's east side, posted a phlebotomist role in 2026.2 HSHS St. Mary's Hospital Medical Center lists lab assistant openings in Green Bay,3 and Prevea Health hires laboratory assistants who handle patient-side lab work and test orders.4 Titles matter when you search: plenty of Green Bay draw jobs are advertised as lab assistant or clinical lab assistant rather than phlebotomist, so searching phlebotomist alone will hide postings you qualify for.
The requirements in those postings are lighter than many applicants expect. The 2026 Aurora BayCare phlebotomist posting lists no license or certification as required.2 The Bellin, HSHS St. Mary's, and Prevea postings reviewed do not name national certification as required or preferred either. Bellin's listing asks for a high school diploma (preferred), a valid driver's license (required), and prior clinical medical experience (preferred).1 That does not make certification pointless: it is a tiebreaker against other applicants, it travels with you if you leave Wisconsin, and postings change from one opening to the next. It does mean a Green Bay graduate is not locked out of applying while an exam date is pending.
Check each system's own careers page rather than relying on aggregator listings. Hospital inpatient draws start early, and shift details, weekend rotations, and any differential pay are spelled out in the posting itself, not in the job-board summary.
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics 2025 wage survey puts the median annual pay for phlebotomists in the Green Bay metro area at $46,490, roughly $22 an hour on a full-time schedule, with about 190 people employed in the role locally. The middle half of local phlebotomists earned between $37,670 and $49,130. The average sits below the median, so a smaller group of lower earners (often newer or part-time staff) pulls the mean down. Treat these as recent, approximate figures rather than what employers are offering in 2026, and confirm current starting rates with the hospitals and labs you apply to.
| Pay Measure (Phlebotomists) | Green Bay, WI Metro (BLS 2025) |
|---|---|
| Total employment | 190 |
| 25th percentile annual pay | $37,670 |
| Median annual pay | $46,490 |
| Mean annual pay | $44,630 |
| 75th percentile annual pay | $49,130 |
A low course fee means little if the program leaves you short on supervised draws or buries fees in the fine print; weigh the full certificate cost and the number of live sticks against the headline price.
NWTC states that its certificates are not eligible for federal financial aid. A student enrolled only in the phlebotomy certificate should not count on Pell grants, federal loans, or Work-Study. NWTC requires the FAFSA every year for federal and need-based aid, but filing it does not appear to make this certificate eligible. The Wisconsin Grant requires state residency, at least half-time enrollment, and no bachelor's degree. The sources do not say whether the phlebotomy certificate qualifies, so ask the financial aid office before assuming it does.
NWTC offers a monthly payment plan with no interest. It carries a $30 enrollment fee that is not refundable, and the tuition balance must be at least $100. You re-enroll each semester. NWTC does not state how many installments apply to this certificate, so confirm the schedule before you register.
If an employer or agency is paying, NWTC can register you without a deposit once it receives an Employer and Agency Authorization to Bill form. NWTC also advises students to ask their employer about covering tuition, fees, supplies, and books.
NWTC Foundation scholarships can cover tuition, books, supplies, and program costs. Fall applications run March 1 to April 30, and Spring applications run October 1 to November 5. College Is Possible, for students at risk of leaving school over financial hardship, has separate windows. The Student Emergency Fund helps with urgent non-tuition expenses only.
Whether WIOA covers this certificate in 2026, what it would pay for, and whether the program counts as approved training are all unconfirmed. Contact the Bay Area Workforce Development Board or your local job center directly. For NWTC questions, call financial aid at 920-498-5444 or email [email protected].
Cost, schedules, and rules can change from one term to the next, so the safest answers come from the source that sets them. Use the checklist below to confirm each point yourself before you enroll or apply.
