Complex sentence: However the (with honours), a prerequisite for the conferral of the honorary M.A., was evidently of a high enough standard to get Troia into the MIT PhD program as the honorary title of MA had not been conferred by the time she started at MIT.
Split into simpler sentences: However the (with honours), a prerequisite for the conferral of the honorary M.A., was evidently of a high enough standard to get Troia into the MIT PhD program. The honorary title of MA had not been conferred by the time she started at MIT.