Before 2002, thousands of students of Gujarat were facing a big problem when they were thinking of taking admission in the masters degree program in the fields of Computer Applications. Students have to appear for separate entrance test for each university. If a student want to take admission in the MCA colleges affiliated with Gujarat University then he/she have to appear for MCA entrance exam of Gujarat University. Similarly, if he/she want to take admission in any MCA college affiliated with South Gujarat University then they have to appear for a separate entrance exam.

This system was not in favor of students as they have to pay individual fees for each exam as well as have to go to different centers to give the exams.

Gujarat government understood the problem of the MCA aspirants and from the year 2002, a new form of an Exam was introduced and government gave it a separate name GCET which stands for Gujarat Common Entrance Test. As there are separate examinations like CAT, MAT, CET etc, Gujarat have its own examination, GCET.

Before the year 2008, GCET was conducted by a nodal university and it was handling the entire examination and admission process but from the date 26th May, 2009, Government of Gujarat had merged all MCA colleges of Gujarat under a single entity, GTU.

Gujarat Technology University was established in 2007 and from the year 2009, all MCA colleges came under the GTU.

GCET (Gujarat Common Entrance Test) for MCA is a single window entry point to MCA course in the institutes, colleges and university departments offering Master in Computer Application (MCA) course.

GCET is conducted by GTU under the direction of an admission committee constituted by the vice-chancellor of the universities in accordance with All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), New Delhi guideline.

GCET for MCA is conducted every year by the admission committee in the month of June-July under the monitoring of GTU.