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twilothunder · Joined: 09 Dec 2011 Posts: 442

I have already accepted that people do MBAs without having done a prior undergraduate degree.

My contention was that I had never heard of anybody being admitted directly into a PhD programme without an undergraduate degree.

spiral78 · Joined: 05 Apr 2004 Posts: 11534 Location: On a Short Leash

Ditto what twilothunder said.

I know of people who've been admitted into MA programmes of several types without a BA, as I noted in my original response to this post.

A Phd is a different animal; I've never heard of one not requiring an MA in advance.

HLJHLJ · Joined: 06 Oct 2009 Posts: 1218 Location: Ecuador

In the UK you don't need a masters to do a PhD, you can go straight from bachelors, and you can go straight to masters without an undergrad degree. I would therefore imagine that you could go from masters to PhD without having first taken a bachelors degree.

I have never heard of someone going straight to PhD without having done either a bachelors or a masters. However, if they were self-funding and had sufficient experience to justify it, they could probably find somewhere willing to take them on.