Best Power BI course: 10 compared in 2026

Best for beginners who want lots of hands-on reports. Using the SQL Server AdventureWorks data warehouse, you build 10 interactive BI reports and dashboards from raw data, learning Power BI best practices and DAX along the way.

It has 4.7 stars from more than 1,300 reviews and more than 7,800 students. It runs about 21 and a half hours and was updated in September 2026.

Best for learners who want several industry projects. It covers connecting and shaping data with Power Query, relational modeling with star schemas, DAX from calculated columns to advanced functions, report and dashboard design, and AI features such as decomposition trees, key influencers and natural language Q&A.

It has 4.7 stars from more than 2,400 reviews and nearly 10,000 students. It runs about 13 and a half hours and was updated in October 2026.

Best for learners who want efficient PL-300 preparation with a project. Maven Analytics casts you as lead BI analyst for a cycling shop and covers data sources and profiling, cleaning and transforming data, data modeling, DAX, reports and dashboards, AI visuals, refresh and row-level security, plus the exam structure and tips.

It has 4.6 stars from more than 13,000 reviews and more than 82,000 students. It runs about eight and a half hours with 11 quizzes and a full-length practice exam, and was updated in June 2026.

Best for learners who want to go from scratch to advanced in one course. It covers Power BI Desktop, Cloud and Mobile, connecting data sources, data modeling, DAX, all the visual types, storytelling with data, drill-throughs and drill-downs, R scripts, forecasting and row-level security.

It has 4.7 stars from more than 4,700 reviews and more than 20,000 students. It runs about 17 hours with 70 resources and was updated in October 2026.

Best for Power BI users ready for expert-level DAX. Using a coffee chain project, it covers the DAX formula and storage engines, best practices, scalar functions, advanced CALCULATE and context transition, table and filter functions, calculated joins, relationship functions, iterators, advanced time intelligence and a look at performance tuning with DAX Studio.

It has 4.7 stars from more than 15,000 reviews and more than 96,000 students. It runs about 11 hours with 10 quizzes and was updated in June 2026. We lowered it slightly because it is a specialist course.

Best for busy analysts and managers who want the essentials fast. It covers the full workflow: setup and the interface, cleaning data with Power Query from Excel, web and SQL sources, data modeling, visualizations with slicers, DAX calculated columns and measures, and sharing through the Power BI Service.

It has 4.6 stars from more than 51,000 reviews and more than 169,000 students. It runs about six hours, the shortest course here, and was updated in October 2026. Mac users can follow the Power BI Service sections in a browser.

Best for learners who want a structured daily plan. Over 15 days it covers connecting to datasets, hierarchies and time series, aggregations and granularity, charts, maps and interactive dashboards, combining data sources and advanced custom visuals, across Power BI Desktop, Service and Mobile.

It has 4.7 stars from more than 23,000 reviews and more than 127,000 students. It runs about 15 and a half hours with six quizzes, exercises in every section and 46 resources, and was updated in October 2026.

Best for business users who want to choose between a full course and a crash course. It covers the Power BI tools, Desktop, the Query Editor and data sources, filtering, pivoting and unpivoting, data model views, calculated columns and measures, relationships, interactive reports, dashboards with Power BI Pro and Power BI Mobile.

It has 4.6 stars from more than 76,000 reviews and more than 313,000 students. It runs about 17 and a half hours, including a two-hour summary path, and was updated in January 2026.

Best for anyone preparing for the Microsoft PL-300 certification. In four parts it covers creating visualizations, getting and transforming data, refining the model with DAX, and publishing to the Power BI Service to build dashboards, increasing in difficulty slowly from basic charts.

It has 4.6 stars from more than 39,000 reviews and more than 215,000 students. It runs about 30 hours with 42 quizzes and two practice tests, and was updated in September 2026.