Can you have multiple wordpress sites under the same domain?

Any issues with having multiple wordpress sites under the same domain.

Example:

• domain.com/programs
• domain.com/sales
• domain.com/learning

Each would have its own templates, functionality, menus and whatever. Any issues you can see?

One of the issues I am worried about is if I have:

• domain.com/programs – which might be a hub site for programs

and then I have another person who is the “golf” program admin…
– domain.com/programs/golf

two totally different sites – may use multisite but not sure yet.

So what if the domain.com/programs admin adds “golf” as a category?

NEW INFO:
To those who said, this is normal for WP and no issues please see Why did installing wordpress in url root jack up underlying WP sites?.

I had 10 sites installed and after installing a “root” site all are having MAJOR permalink issues.

Yes, instead of installing WordPress at root– example.com/— you’d create the “programs”, “sales”, and “learning” directories on the server and install a seperate WordPress instance in each directory. There is nothing special you need to do to make this work.

I think you may end up happier if you create a network, though. Multisite, while not always appropriate, seems to me to be exactly what you are after, and you can create the same “path” based structure.