Reservation of Seats for GCET MBA

GCET MCA admission committee have reserved seats for candidates who are origin of Gujarat and falling under the following categories:

Schedule Caste: 7%
Schedule Tribe: 15%
Socially and Educationally Backward Classes, Including widows and Orphans of any caste (SEBC): 27%

There are some conditions to get the benefit of reservations. They are as follows:

> Candidate have to produce a valid certificate duly signed, stamped and issued by the authority empowered by government of Gujarat. SEBC candidates have to produce a valid none creamy layer certificate.
> If the candidate fails to produce the required documents he will be considered as unreserved category candidate.
> If seats remains vacant after giving admission in a particular reserved category, it will be converted into unreserved seats.
> 3% of total seats in each category will be reserved for physically disabled candidates. The disability should not be less than 40% and should be issued by a valid authority.
> 1% of total seats in each category will be reserved for the children of defense personals and ex-servicemen. Candidate seeking admission in this category have to present a valid certificate issued by Director, Sainik Welfare Board, Gujarat state or by the district sainik welfare officer. In-service defense personnel shall be required to submit certificate to that duly issued by the commanding officer of the respective unit in which they are serving.
> If the seats remains vacant against this category, the children of ex-service men or defense personnel will be given priority.
> 1 seat from each college will be reserved for Jammu migrants.

Eligibility criteria for Master of Computer Application course in the MCA colleges affiliated with Gujarat Technological University.

The basic criteria for admission in the MCA course in any college, institute or department affiliated with GTU is that the student MUST have to appear in the GCET MCA 2010.

A degree or equivalent qualification in any discipline from a government recognized university, deemed university or institutes incorporated by central stat act or university grant commission (UGC)  act. 1956 (3 of 1956) or government of India or a state government.

The qualifying degree examination should be passed from a college, institute or university based in Gujarat. If the college/institute/university is not based in the Gujarat then:

Student must have passed the Higher Secondary School certificate (Standard XII, 10+2 Pattern) or its equivalent examination from (i) the Gujarat Board or (ii) from a Gujarat or Union territories of Diu, Daman and Dadara Nagar Haveli based Central Board of Secondary Education Board or (iii) Gujarat or Union territories of Diu, Daman and Dadara Nagar Haveli based Council of Indian School of Certificate Examinations, New Delhi Board.

A student must have passed Higher Secondary School Certification Examination (Standard XII, 10+2 Pattern) or a Bachelor's degree with Mathematics or Business Mathematics or Statistics as one of the subject.

A candidate who have appeared in the final year of Bachelor's degree examination is eligible to appear in GCET MCA with the condition that he shall have passed the qualifying examination at the time of admission.

Master of Computer Application (MCA) is an entry point to the IT and ITes Industry for those graduates who don't have a formal education in Information Technology or Computer Science. MCA course is suitable for BA/B.Com/B.Sc/B.Pharm and engineering graduates in non-IT discipline.

MCA is a 3 year full time degree course consisting of six semesters. It covers various aspects of computing, programming, software designing, computer networking, database, communication and other segments of management concepts related to information technology.

Following subjects are being taught in the MCA course:

• Fundamentals of Programming
• Discrete Mathematics for Computer Science
• Fundamentals of Computer Organization
• Database Management Systems
• Enterprise Resources & Financial Management
• Data Structures
• Object Oriented Concepts & Programming
• Computer Oriented Numerical Methods
• Theory of Computation
• CLIENT SERVER ARCHITECTURE & INTERFACES
• JAVA PROGRAMMING
• COMPUTER ORIENTED STATISTICAL METHODS
• SYSTEM SOFTWARE
• OPERATING SYSTEMS
• TECHNICAL WRITING AND COMMUNICATION SKILLS
• SOFTWARE CONSTRUCTION
• COMPUTER BASED OPTIMIZATION MODELS
• FUNDAMENTALS OF NETWORKING
• STRUCTURE & OBJECT ORIENTED ANALYSIS DESIGN AND MODELLING
• DISTRIBUTED APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT
• Artificial Intelligence
• Compiler Construction
• Parallel Processing
• Computer Graphics
• Software Project Management
• Data Warehousing & Data Mining
• ADVANCED NETWORKING & NETWORKINGADMINISTRATION
• WEB TECHNOLOGIES & APPLICATION
• SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
• Soft Computing
• Embedded Systems
• Wireless Technologies (Mobile Computing)
• Distributed Operating System
• Multimedia
• Windows Programming
• Bioinformatics
• Network Security
• Distributed & Cluster Computing
• Image Processing
• ERP
• Linux Programming

Structure of MCA Program:

GCET MCA program is a Three year fulltime course which consists of six semesters. In each semester, students have to study 4-7 subjects in each semester. There are some courses like accounting etc consist only theory and other computer technology related subjects carry theory and practical.

There are two mid term examinations which are taken by the college and the score is counted as Internal marks and at the end of semester, final examination which is conducted by GTU and it consists of theoretical examinations, practical examination and viva. The result of internal and external is considered in calculating the final score.

Students need not to study and theoretical or practical subjects in the sixth semester. Students have to under go live training projects in some companies and have to implement a software development project. At the end of the semester, students have to present the software they developed and the marks are given according to the performance in the work.

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.

Indian and Global IT industry is growing and now a day one of the most promising and employment generating industry. Now a day it become a dream of every graduate to make a career in the growing IT industry and MCA is an opportunity for the graduates and engineers. If you are a B.A/B.Com/B.Sc or Engineering in non IT disciplines then MCA is your gateway to that lucrative industry.

Gujarat is one of the states which generate one of the highest IT professional in India and it became a craze among graduates to make career in the IT field and that is the reason many students want to make career in the IT.

So why the craze for MCA? The answer is:

As we all know, computer is becoming a part of daily lives in business and individual and due to that a career in computers shows unmatched promise, potential and can become a goldmine in terms of rewards.

Year 2000 Onwards, India had seen a significant growth in Information Technology and Information Technology Enabled services sector. The demand for skilled manpower in the field of IT in India and globe raised specially in the countries like USA, UK and Canada. Due to that reason more and more people started opting for career in the IT sector.

Master of Computer Application (MCA) is considered as one of the major options for student eyeing this huge career opportunity. It is true that due to downfall in global IT industry, the demand for the IT professionals surged and that also affected this course and for the last few years the interest in this course was declined.

Still, if we look at the figures and the performance of the IT and ITeS companies, they are performing really well and there is huge scope in the industry. In fact, by 2010, the demand and supply gap is going to be as wide as half a million jobs. US Bureau of Labor statistics has predicted a 68 per cent increase in output growth rate of the IT industry between 2002 and 2012.

McKinsey conducted a study that revealed a substantial growth in IT businesses in India. It further predicted for 2008 that India's IT business revenue will cross US $85 billion. More than 2 million new jobs will be created out of this and Indian companies will observe their market capitalization to reach a magical figure of US$ 225 billion. The proliferating impact of the future scenario can be inferred from the fact that one job in IT creates five more jobs in the businesses that rely on IT software and hardware.

Masters in computer applications (MCA):

Companies are looking for professionals in engineering and post graduate in computer science. There are various types of jobs available from entry level to manager level for MCA professionals.

There are many students who were not able to secure admission in engineering and want to make career in IT. MCA is the best option for those who had done their graduation in BA/B.Com/B.Sc/B.Pharm or Engineering in non IT disciplines.

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