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 Tech
nology (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.
