SSC may refer to:

Education

Schools and universities

Australia

Sydney Secondary College Sydney Secondary College is a multi-campus Urban area, urban Education in Australia#Government schools, government-funded, Mixed-sex education, co-educational, dual modality, partially Selective school (New South Wales), academically selective ...

, a public school in Sydney, Australia * St Stanislaus' College, Bathurst, New South Wales * Santa Sabina College, Strathfield, New South Wales * Saint Stephen's College, Coomera, Queensland *

Saint Scholastica's College, Australia St Scholastica's College (commonly referred to as ''Schols'') is an Independent school, independent Roman Catholicism in Australia, Roman Catholic Single-sex education, single-sex Secondary school, secondary Day school, day and Boarding school ...

United States

* Saint Stanislaus College, a high school in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi * Salem State University, a public college in Salem, Massachusetts * Seminole State College (Oklahoma), a public college in Seminole, Oklahoma *

Seminole State College of Florida Seminole State College of Florida is a public college based in Sanford, Florida, United States. It is part of the Florida College System. History Established by the Florida Legislature in 1965 as Seminole Junior College, the school began ope ...

, a public college in Seminole County, Florida * South Seattle College, a two-year public college in Seattle, Washington * South Suburban College, a community college in South Holland, Illinois

Other schools and universities

* San Sebastian College – Recoletos in Manila, Philippines * St. Scholastica's College, Manila, Philippines * St Stephen's College, Hong Kong, in Stanley, Hong Kong Island * St. Stephen's Girls' College, Hong Kong, in Pok Fu Lam, Hong Kong Island

Other uses in education

* Student selected components, optional elements in the syllabus of UK medical schools *

Secondary School Certificate Secondary School Certificate (SSC), Secondary School Leaving Certificate (SSLC) or Matriculation examination, is a public examination in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Maldives and Nepal conducted by educational boards for the successful completi ...

, the certificate given to students graduating from a secondary school in India, Pakistan or Bangladesh *

Secondary School Leaving Certificate The Secondary School Leaving Certificate (commonly referred to as SSLC) is a certification obtained by a student on successful completion of an examination at the end of study at the secondary schooling level in India. The SSLC is obtained o ...

examination

Organizations

Businesses

Shanghai Supercomputer Center Since the early 2000s, China has increased its presence in the TOP500 rankings of supercomputers, with systems like Tianhe-1A reaching the top position in 2010 and Sunway TaihuLight leading in 2016. By 2018, China had the highest number of super ...

, a high-performance computing service provider *

Shared services center A shared services center – a center for shared services in an organization – is the entity responsible for the execution and the handling of specific operational tasks, such as accounting, human resources, payroll, Information technol ...

, outsourcing * SSC North America, an automobile manufacturer *

Specialized System Consultants Specialized System Consultants (SSC), is a private media company that publishes magazines and reference manuals. SSC properties have at various times included LinuxGazette.com, ITgarage.com, the monthly international print magazine ''Linux Journ ...

, a private media company *

Swedish Space Corporation The Swedish Space Corporation (SSC), also registered as Svenska rymdaktiebolaget, is a Swedish space services company. SSC operations consist of launches of sounding rockets and stratospheric balloons, tests of future generation rocket engines a ...

, a Swedish government-owned company * Southern Star Central Gas Pipeline, based in Owensboro, KY

Governmental organizations

* Saudi Space Commission, government agency of Saudi Arabia * Shared Services Canada *

Space Systems Command Space Systems Command (SSC) is the United States Space Force's research and development, space development, Military acquisition, acquisition, space launch, launch, and Military logistics, logistics field command. It is headquartered at Los An ...

, the acquisition, research and development, and launch command of the United States Space Force * Staff Selection Commission, conducts entry exams for Indian Government staff * State Security Council of apartheid South Africa *

State Services Commission The Public Service Commission (PSC; ), called the State Services Commission until 2020, is the central public service department of New Zealand charged with overseeing, managing, and improving the performance of the public sector organisations ...

, oversees public sector performance in New Zealand * Swiss Science Council, independent scientific advisory body of the Federal Council of Switzerland * US Army Soldier Systems Center, Natick, Massachusetts

Other organizations

Sangha Supreme Council The Sangha Supreme Council (; ) is the governing body of the Buddhist order ( Sangha) of Thailand Thailand, officially the Kingdom of Thailand and historically known as Siam (the official name until 1939), is a country in Southeast Asi ...

, governs Buddhism in Thailand * Sector skills council in the UK, a type of employers' organization for reducing skills gaps * Sierra Student Coalition, a student-run arm of the Sierra Club, an environmental organization in the United States * Singapore Symphony Chorus, choir of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra *

Society of the Holy Cross The Society of the Holy Cross (SSC; ) is an international Anglo-Catholicism, Anglo-Catholic society of male priests with members in the Anglican Communion and the Continuing Anglican movement, who live under a common rule of life that informs t ...

''(Societas Sanctae Crucis)'', Anglo-Catholic society of male priests * Society of Solicitors in the Supreme Courts of Scotland, a professional association of solicitors *

Species Survival Commission The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) is an international organization working in the field of nature conservation and sustainable use of natural resources. Founded in 1948, IUCN has become the global authority on the status ...

of the International Union for Conservation of Nature * Statistical Society of Canada, promotes use and understanding of statistical methods

Places

Shaw Air Force Base Shaw Air Force Base (Shaw AFB) is a United States Air Force (USAF) base located approximately west-northwest of downtown Sumter, South Carolina. It is one of the largest military bases operated by the United States, and is under the jurisdict ...

, South Carolina, US (FAA code) *

Stennis Space Center The John C. Stennis Space Center (SSC) is a NASA rocket testing facility in Hancock County, Mississippi, United States, on the banks of the Pearl River (Mississippi–Louisiana), Pearl River at the Mississippi–Louisiana border. , it is NASA ...

, Mississippi *

Second Severn Crossing The Prince of Wales Bridge (), previously the Second Severn Crossing () until July 2018, is the M4 motorway bridge over the River Severn between England and Wales, opened in 1996 to supplement the traffic capacity of the Severn Bridge built i ...

, a motorway bridge across the River Severn from England to Wales * US Army Soldier Systems Center, Natick, Massachusetts * Sool, Sanaag, and Cayn, three provinces in Somalia collectively known as

Khatumo State SSC-Khaatumo (), officially known as the SSC-Khaatumo State of Somalia (), is a federal member state in northern Somalia, with its capital in Las Anod. It includes parts of the Sool, Sanaag and Cayn regions (combined under the acronym "SSC") ...

since 2012 ** HBM-SSC, Militia based in SSC region * Shetland Space Centre, a proposed spaceport in Scotland

Science and technology

Computing and information technology

* IBM Secure Service Container *

, a high-performance computing service provider *

Synchronous serial communication Synchronous serial communication describes a serial communication protocol , "In synchronous transmission, groups of bits are combined into frames,and frames are sent continuously with or without data to be transmitted." Synchronous communicatio ...

* Synchronous Serial Controller * Spread-spectrum clocking, a technique used to reduce electromagnetic interference (EMI) produced by synchronous digital systems (such as computer systems) * SQL Server Compact, a small-footprint database from Microsoft *

Supplementary service codes ETSI and 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) standards, such as GSM and LTE, define supplementary service codes that make it possible to query and set certain service parameters (''e.g.,'' call forwarding) directly from mobile devices. Se ...

* SinuSoidal Coding used for audio in

MPEG-4 Part 3 MPEG-4 Part 3 or MPEG-4 Audio (formally ISO/ IEC 14496-3) is the third part of the ISO/ IEC MPEG-4 international standard developed by Moving Picture Experts Group. It specifies audio coding methods. The first version of ISO/IEC 14496-3 was publis ...

* Samsung Seamless Codec used for wireless audio via

Bluetooth Bluetooth is a short-range wireless technology standard that is used for exchanging data between fixed and mobile devices over short distances and building personal area networks (PANs). In the most widely used mode, transmission power is li ...

- proprietary

A2DP In order to use Bluetooth, a device must be compatible with the subset of Bluetooth ''profiles'' (often called services or functions) necessary to use the desired services. A Bluetooth profile is a specification regarding an aspect of Bluetooth-b ...

audio codec

Life sciences

Systemic sclerosis Systemic scleroderma, or systemic sclerosis, is an autoimmune rheumatic disease characterised by excessive production and accumulation of collagen, called fibrosis, in the skin and internal organs and by injuries to small arteries. There are tw ...

, a form of scleroderma * Secondary sclerosing cholangitis, a chronic cholestatic liver disease * California species of special concern, a legal protective designation for at-risk wildlife in the state of California * SSC buffer, a saline sodium citrate buffer commonly used in molecular biology and organic chemistry *

Stretch shortening cycle A stretch-shortening cycle (SSC) is an active stretch ( eccentric contraction) of a muscle followed by an immediate shortening ( concentric contraction) of that same muscle. Research studies The increased performance benefit associated with muscle ...

, a process of faster muscular contraction after a dynamic stretch * Side-scattered light, a parameter of

flow cytometry Flow cytometry (FC) is a technique used to detect and measure the physical and chemical characteristics of a population of cells or particles. In this process, a sample containing cells or particles is suspended in a fluid and injected into the ...

Physical sciences

Spatial Synoptic Classification system Based upon the Bergeron air mass In meteorology, an air mass is a volume of air defined by its temperature and humidity. Air masses cover many hundreds or thousands of square miles, and adapt to the characteristics of the surface below them. ...

, which is a way of diagnosing the climate of a location using air mass theory *

Sulfide stress cracking Sulfide stress cracking (SSC) is a form of hydrogen embrittlement which is a cathodic cracking mechanism. It should not be confused with the term stress corrosion cracking which is an anodic cracking mechanism. Susceptible alloys, especially ste ...

, a type of corrosion * Super star clusters, in astronomy, possible progenitors of globular clusters *

Superconducting Super Collider The Superconducting Super Collider (SSC), nicknamed Desertron, was a particle accelerator complex under construction from 1991 to 1993 near Waxahachie, Texas, United States. Its planned ring circumference was with an energy of 20 TeV per proto ...

, a colliding beam particle accelerator partially built in Texas by the US government before being canceled in 1993

Technologies

* Thrust SSC, world's first supersonic land vehicle and current land speed record holder * Ship-to-Shore Connector, a future air-cushion vehicle (hovercraft) of the United States Navy * Soft structured carrier, a soft (often fabric) baby carrier * Sistema Supporto Condotta, a kind of automated railway signalling in use on the Italian railway network *

Static synchronous compensator In electrical engineering , a static synchronous compensator (STATCOM) is a shunt-connected, voltage control and reactive power management, reactive compensation device used on transmission networks. It uses power electronics to form a voltage-sour ...

(STATCOM), a power electronics voltage-source converter

Sport

* Saudi Sports Company, company of a television network *

Sinhalese Sports Club Ground The Sinhalese Sports Club Cricket Ground (SSC Cricket Ground) (; ) is one of the most famous cricket grounds in Sri Lanka, and the headquarters of Sri Lanka Cricket, the controlling body of cricket in Sri Lanka. The ground is sometimes describ ...

, a venue for international cricket matches in Colombo, Sri Lanka *

Sinhalese Sports Club The Sinhalese people, Singhalese Sports Club (SSC) was a first-class cricket club in Colombo, Sri Lanka till 2025 when they were relegated after enduring a horrendous 2024-25 version of the Major Club 3 day tournament in which they could only m ...

, a first-class cricket club based in Colombo, Sri Lanka *

Southern States Conference The Southern States Conference (SSC) was an affiliate of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics that included member institutions in the U.S. states of Alabama, Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia, Mississippi, and Florida. The league exi ...

, a defunct NAIA conference in the United States *

Soviet Super Cup The USSR Super Cup,, , , also known as the Season's Cup, was an unofficial exhibition game (or game series) not sanctioned by the Football Federation of the Soviet Union and that featured the winners of the previous season's Soviet Top League ...

, a defunct association football cup in the Soviet Union *

Speed Skating Canada Speed Skating Canada (SSC) is the governing body for competitive long track and short track speed skating in Canada. It was founded in 1887, five years before the International Skating Union of which SSC later became a member in 1894. History In ...

Sunshine State Conference The Sunshine State Conference is a college athletic conference affiliated with the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) at the Division II level. All of its member institutions are located in the state of Florida, which is popularly k ...

, a sports organization in Florida

Other uses

Hull classification symbol The United States Navy, United States Coast Guard, and United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) use a hull classification symbol (sometimes called hull code or hull number) to identify their ships by type and by ind ...

for coastal submarine * Safe, sane and consensual, a practice in BDSM * Scottish Submarine Centre, a naval museum in Scotland *

SkyscraperCity SkyscraperCity, also known as SkyscraperCity.com, is the world's largest online forum on skyscrapers and urban related topics. The website, which currently runs on XenForo, was founded in 2002 by Dutch economist Jan Klerks running on vBulletin, ...

, an online forum for urban discussion * '' Slate Star Codex'', a blog about philosophy, psychiatry, and pharmacology *

South–South cooperation South-South cooperation (SSC) is a term historically used by policymakers and academics to describe the exchange of resources, technology, and knowledge between developing countries. Definition The term South or Global South is defined as reg ...

between developing countries *

Strawberry Shortcake Strawberry shortcake may refer to: * Strawberry shortcake (dessert), a shortcake served with strawberries * Strawberry Shortcake, a cartoon character and franchise created by American Greetings ** Strawberry Shortcake (TV series), ''Strawberry Sho ...

* Syrian Satellite Channel, a satellite television channel owned by RTV Syria {{Disambiguation