About the partner
Albert School: Learning Business by Doing
Business is changing fast. Data and AI are becoming part of almost every decision companies make. So why study them separately?
That’s the thinking behind Albert School, a School of Data & Business created in partnership with Mines Paris - PSL, the 2nd-ranked engineering school in France and 24th worldwide in the 2025 QS rankings.
The school focuses on one increasingly valuable combination: business, data and AI. Its goal is to develop profiles who understand the numbers, but also know what to do with them, a combination that remains relatively rare in the job market.
Albert School now has five campuses: Paris, Marseille, Milan, Geneva and Madrid.
Two ways into the same idea
The Bachelor in Business, Data & AI runs for three years and leads to a joint Albert School x Mines Paris - PSL degree.
Students choose between two tracks depending on where they want to take the business-data combination:
Advanced Mathematics
For students looking for deeper quantitative training and greater mathematical rigour.
Management & Strategy
For those more interested in using data to understand markets, make decisions and solve business problems.
There is also the International BBA, a three-year, multi-campus programme for students looking to build a more international experience across Europe.
Less theory. More real-world problems.
One of Albert School’s defining features is its Business Deep Dives.
From the first year, students spend three weeks working on an actual business challenge provided by one of the school’s partners. Instead of being given a problem with a predetermined answer, they have to understand the situation, analyse the data and come up with a solution.
The projects involve companies such as LVMH, Carrefour, BCG, Pernod Ricard, Google and Edmond de Rothschild.
It makes the transition between the classroom and the workplace a little less abstract: students get to see how the tools they are learning are actually used.
A school built around its network
Albert School is supported by Xavier Niel, Bernard Arnault, Rodolphe Saadé and 40 European entrepreneurs, and keeps its classes deliberately small, with a maximum of 40 students.
Students also benefit from personalised support, weekly mathematics mentoring and access to a broad network of partner companies for internships and work-study opportunities.
The result is a fairly clear proposition: learn the technical side, understand the business side, and spend time solving problems where the two actually meet.