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Much more challenging in terms of will power and motivation than a BSc or MSc
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You can do it, and some programs will allow it, and some will not. And it would be common to be admitted onto some sort of provisional masters program and then convert over at some point, which would be quicker than doing them consecutively.
My PhD program, it would have been incredibly rare. I knew of a couple of people who came straight in, but they had done 4 or 5 year dedicated programs in my subject (Philosophy), mostly at European universities and even then it was tricky to get admitted.
For me, I had a Scottish MA (honours already so had done 4 solid years, but was still strongly encouraged to do the masters. That specific masters was (by reputation), "the hardest philosophy degree in the world", and it's not that unusual (or certainly wasn't in the past) to just do that, and never bother with the PhD.
I'd concur with those who are recommending (if it's vocational) to do a masters and consider NOT doing a PhD. They are much harder work than anyone anticipates going in, and just getting the degree is only part of it.
Funding and finding a way to support yourself are hard, fitting in teaching -- if you want to do it and go on to be an academic -- on top of that is harder still, and then you need to be seriously considering the fact that you will be going on the job market at the end, so networking, kissing the right people's arses, publishing, attending and presenting at conferences, and generally building your profile all take huge amounts of work.
Because if you don't do that, and you apply for an academic or academic related job, you can be sure that there will be people you are up against who have spent 3 or 4 years assiduously building their reputation, publication record, teaching and "service" record, and so on, and they'll get the job, and you won't. It doesn't matter how good you are if no-one knows about you, and you don't have influential people in your field advocating for you.
That said, if you are prepared to do the work -- and really, it's an unbelievable amount of work, it's the furthest away from a doss/skive you can imagine -- there can be really interesting things at the end of it.
I'm glad I did mine, although I'm not an academic any more. But there was a LOT of pain along the way.
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