Multi‐Carrier Code Division Multiple Access (MC‐CDMA) is becoming a very promising and robust multiple access technique to fading channels. This paper is mainly focused on reviewing different sub‐carrier selection techniques for MC‐CDMA system and highlighting the best one among them. It has been found that appropriate subcarrier selection strategy can significantly improve BER performance, Throughput performance, and data rate with higher spectrum. Here, three subcarrier selection techniques viz., MOPSO, modified SSK, and slantlet transform (SLT) are extensively analysed and at the end the slantlet transform was found to be superior to the rest of them.