The SCET (Sarvajanik College of Engineering and Technology) is an engineering college which is a part of the Sarvajanik Education Society. The college was started in 1995 in Surat, Gujarat, in the AthwaLines area opposite to the Seventh-day Adventist Church School and College. SCET is affiliated to Veer Narmad South Gujarat University and Gujarat Technological University (GTU) and is also approved by All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and Council of Architecture,it is also selected by the Department of Science and Technology (India) to set up an environmental based project, Technology Information Forecasting and Assessment Council, Centre of Relevance & Excellence (TIFAC-CORE) under the mission REACH of the president of India Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam for his vision India Vision 2020. SCET has also been identified as Resource Institute by the National Programme on Earthquake Engineering Education (NPEEE) launched by Ministry of Human Resource Development (India) to train teachers of Architecture Institution for introducing EarthQuake Engineering in West & Central Zone along with IIT Kanpur.
When the college opened in 1995, it had departments of Electronics Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Architecture, Textile Technology and Processing. It was the first college to offer engineering degrees in Textiles, which is the major industry of Surat. Later in 1997, the college expanded and now also has departments of Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Instrumentation & Control and Information Technology. An Environmental Science department has also started in the college.
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