Power BI Certification: The 8 Best PL-300 Prep Courses in 2026

New Horizons teaches the official PL-300T00 course over three full days, as a Virtual Instructor Led class on Central time or as a private group for your company. The outline runs to 22 modules and is current with the latest exam: Power Query, data modeling, DAX (the formula language behind Power BI measures), reports, dashboards, Microsoft Fabric (Microsoft's data platform that now wraps Power BI), Copilot and visual calculations. You keep the class recordings for 90 days, and public dates are marked "guaranteed to run", so a session won't be cancelled for lack of attendees.

The prerequisites are basic data literacy, with DP-900 (Microsoft's data fundamentals exam) suggested. The exam voucher is an add-on, so budget $165 per person on top of the $1,895 seat. For a team, the private-group option is the real draw: same official content, scheduled around your people. The weak spot is social proof. The page shows a 4.8/5 average instructor rating across New Horizons courses, but no reviews specific to this course, so ask for references before you buy several seats.

Microsoft built this Professional Certificate on Coursera: eight courses, about 188 hours in total, or roughly five months at 10 hours a week. It starts at the very beginning (getting data, cleaning it in Power Query, modeling, DAX, visualizing) and ends with "Microsoft PL-300 Exam Preparation and Practice", a 37-hour course built around a 150-minute mock exam. Finish the program and you get a 50% voucher on the PL-300, which saves you $82.50 on the $165 exam.

It's the most-reviewed option we found: 4.6/5 from 9,670 reviews and more than 570,000 learners. The final prep course also rates 4.6/5, but its reviews flag real issues: a mock exam that feels harder than the lessons, some questions on topics the courses never covered, and a few lessons called out as wrong or outdated. Keep the official practice assessment as your reality check. The program carries an ACE credit recommendation and FIBAA credit of up to 8 ECTS. It's taught in English, with 27 languages listed on the page. You can enroll for free to start, and some courses offer a full-course, no-certificate option.

DataCamp's career track, co-created with Microsoft, packs 17 courses and about 48 to 50 hours of practice that runs right in your browser: no install, no setup. You work through Power Query, data modeling, DAX and report design in short interactive exercises. It rates 4.7/5 from 227 reviews.

The voucher is the reason it ranks here. Finish the track on a paid plan and DataCamp sends you a 50% PL-300 discount code within seven business days. The code is valid for three to six months, so finish the track only when you're ready to book. One thing to know: DataCamp markets the track as a "certification program", but what it issues is a statement of accomplishment. The only certification at the end is Microsoft's, and you still have to pass the PL-300 yourself. For a team, one subscription covers the whole curriculum, which is easier to manage than a stack of separate courses.

Graduate School USA, an ACCET-accredited school, sells this program; the same program is also sold by VDCI under its own name. You get 24 hours in total: a 12-hour bootcamp, a 6-hour advanced module and 6 hours of private tutoring, live (with recordings available for 30 days after each session) or self-paced. You walk away with the school's certificate of completion, and with the Microsoft certification if you pass the exam.

The real selling point is the bundle. The Microsoft exam is included, with a free retake if you fail. The exam is optional: if you skip it, you can swap it for one extra hour of private tutoring. On a $165 exam, a covered second attempt removes the worst-case cost. Two caveats. The page never names the PL-300 exam code, so confirm in writing which exam the voucher covers. And the content leans heavily on Power BI Desktop, with less on the service, governance and Fabric that the current exam also tests.

ONLC runs the PL-300 class over three days with an instructor, either live online or in one of its training centers. It's the cheapest three-day instructor-led option in this ranking at $1,795. Two policies set it apart. Public instructor-led classes come with a satisfaction guarantee (with restrictions, so read them). And you can retake the course for free, once, within 12 months.

Don't confuse that retake with an exam retake. It's the class you can sit again, not the PL-300: the voucher isn't mentioned at all, so plan on $165 per person for the exam. The page shows three five-star testimonials, none about this course, and no overall rating, which leaves you little to judge the instructors by. For a manager who wants people in a room, with a guarantee to point to when asking for budget, it's still a sensible choice.

Chris Sorensen and Microsoft Press walk through the PL-300 skills in 6 hours and 11 minutes of video, at an intermediate level, in a course released in 2025. It rates 4.6/5 from 298 ratings. It's a review course, not a full training: it assumes you already work in Power BI and want the exam objectives laid out in order.

The appeal is cost. Many companies already hold LinkedIn Learning licenses, so for your team it may be free, and there's a one-month trial if not. What you get at the end is a certificate of completion, not a certification. Practice exams sit in separate courses and aren't part of this one, and there's no instructor to ask when something doesn't click. Use it to structure your review, then move to the official practice assessment.

This is the last course of Microsoft's Professional Certificate on Coursera, and you can take it on its own. It packs about 37 hours, or four weeks at 10 hours a week, around a 150-minute mock exam, which is longer than the real 100-minute test. It rates 4.6/5 from 729 reviews and has more than 75,000 learners.

Read the reviews before you lean on it. Several learners found the mock exam much harder than the lessons and quizzes, and some questions covered topics the course never taught; one review calls some lessons wrong or outdated. Others say it helped a lot with their preparation. Use it as a stress test, then check your real level with Microsoft's free practice assessment. Like the full program, it's taught in English and ends with a certificate of completion, not the Microsoft certification.

Pragmatic Works sells a virtual PL-300 bootcamp for $1,995. The bootcamp page doesn't give the course length; its FAQ says its bootcamps run three to five days. It also offers a 9-hour on-demand PL-300 course and a free 90-minute PL-300 session on YouTube. Its free community plan unlocks more than 50 courses, a genuinely useful way to test the teaching style before you spend anything.

Its blog coverage of the exam is solid, including a sensible warning not to lean on the open-book access to Microsoft Learn during the test. The paid side is less transparent. The voucher isn't mentioned, the bootcamp page says you "may" receive a certificate of completion, and the on-demand course price isn't displayed. At $1,995, that's the most expensive seat in this ranking with the least written down. Start with the free plan, and ask for the exact schedule and what's included before you book the bootcamp.