Another factor to be considered is facilities that have direct concerns to a legal research library, computer libraries, suitably furnished classrooms for all students. Paralegal activities should enable students to participate in legal community while paralegal education and as well as paralegal associations should always be prepared whenever a student needs one. Also more important to consider is its content and nature of paralegal program’s curriculum which will adhere with relationship to legal research and writing, ethics, contracts, business organizations, and litigation as well. While each paralegal program may differ in offering of courses, a student should be able to develop and hone their critical thinking, communication, organizational skills, competency to handle ethical concerns, and computational. Paralegal training and experiential learning elements will include internship, clinical experience, and practicum.

If these standard factors have met by paralegal programs like paralegal associate degree programs, paralegal bachelor degree programs, paralegal certificate programs, and/or paralegal master’s degree programs of paralegal school/college/university, students will sure make it a long way in field after completing paralegal certification or paralegal degree. Most of these programs are now offered in a delivery system that utilizes interactive broadcasting to different sites. These are called distance education program wherein paralegal online schools have taken its numerous advantages. Web-based paralegal education will provide easier and more accessible learning using internet as medium.

Some educational institutions accept student and afterward award paralegal certificates to those who finished at least three semesters in college or 36 units credits. There are also eight courses in legal studies to finish before a paralegal certificate can be given. These are Business Law, Family Law, Introduction to Civil Procedures, Introduction to Criminal Law, Bankruptcy, Real Estate Law, Legal Research and Writing, and Legal Ethics.

Upon completion of course, but before awarding of paralegal certificate, individual is not yet to be called paralegal, because paralegal certificate can be obtained by standards set by American Bar Association. The standard requires completion of Certified Legal Assistant certifying (CLA) examination of National Association of Legal Assistants. The school that award paralegal certificate should have “American Bar Association approved program of study for legal assistants.” The candidate should first graduate “from a course of study for legal assistants which is institutionally accredited but not ABA approved, and which requires not less than equivalent of 60 semester hours of classroom study.”

In addition, a paralegal certificate can be obtained he candidate graduated from “a course of study for legal assistants, other than those set forth in (2) and (3) above, plus not less than six months of in-house training as a legal assistant.” He or she should also have an attained baccalaureate degree in any field with an "in-house training as a legal assistant" not lower than six months. Achieving all these, paralegal certificate is ready to be given.