BCS may refer to:

American football

Bowl Championship Series The Bowl Championship Series (BCS) was a college football post-season selection system that created four or five bowl game match-ups involving eight or ten of the top ranked teams in the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) of America ...

, a system that selected matchups for major college football bowl games between 1998 and 2013 * BCS conferences, the six FBS conferences with automatic major bowl bids under that system; since superseded by the

Power Five conferences The power conferences are the most prominent athletic conferences in college football in the United States. They are part of the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) of the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division I, the highest level o ...

BCS National Championship Game The BCS National Championship Game was a postseason college football bowl game, used to determine a national champion of the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), first played in the 1998 college football season as one of four des ...

, the bowl game determining the national championship team under that system

Education

Bachelor of Computer Science The Bachelor of Computer Science (abbreviated BCompSc or BCS) is a bachelor's degree for completion of an undergraduate program in computer science. In general, computer science degree programs emphasize the mathematical and theoretical foundatio ...

* Bachelor of Commercial Science * Bangor Christian Schools, Bangor, Maine, United States * Berlin Cosmopolitan School, Berlin, Land Berlin, Germany * Bishop Cotton School (disambiguation) *

Bishop's College School Bishop's College School or BCS is an English-language non-profit independent school, independent boarding school, boarding College-preparatory school, prep school in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada for students in Grades 7 to 12.Thomson, Ashley; L ...

, Lennoxville, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada *

Bullis Charter School Bullis Charter School (BCS) is a public charter school in Los Altos, California, USA, for grades kindergarten through eighth. As the Santa Clara County Office of Education charters the school, BCS operates independently of the Los Altos School D ...

, a public charter school in Los Altos, California, United States

Organisation

* Balochistan Civil Service *

Bangladesh Civil Service Bangladesh Civil Service (), popularly known by its acronym BCS, is the civil service of Bangladesh. Civil service in the Indian subcontinent originated from the Imperial Civil Service which was the elite higher civil service of the British Empir ...

* Bangladesh Computer Society *

Bloc of Communists and Socialists The Bloc of Communists and Socialists (, BCS) is an electoral alliance between the Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova (PCRM) and the Party of Socialists of the Republic of Moldova (PSRM). It was formed as the Electoral Bloc of Communi ...

, a Moldovan electoral alliance *

Bond Christen Socialisten The League of Christian Socialists (, or BCS) was a Dutch Christian socialist political party. Party history The BCS was founded in 1907. In the 1918 elections, the first election with a system of proportional representation and male universal su ...

, a Dutch political party *

Boston Computer Society The Boston Computer Society (BCS) was an organization of personal computer users, based in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, U.S., that ran from 1977 to 1996. At one point, it was the largest such group in the world, with regular user group mee ...

, a defunct group *

British Cartographic Society The British Cartographic Society (BCS) is an association of individuals and organisations dedicated to exploring and developing the world of maps. It is a registered charity. Membership includes national mapping agencies, publishers, designers, ...

, promoting the art and science of mapmaking *

British Computer Society image:Maurice Vincent Wilkes 1980 (3).jpg, Sir Maurice Wilkes served as the first President of BCS in 1957. The British Computer Society (BCS), branded BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, since 2009, is a professional body and a learned ...

, a chartered professional/academic association for IT practitioners *

British Cardiovascular Society The British Cardiovascular Society (BCS) is a United Kingdom-wide health organisation based in London. It aims to represent all healthcare professionals working in the field of cardiology, set standards for prevention, diagnosis, and clinical care ...

, a healthcare association for professionals working in the field of cardiology

Publications

* '' BCS: 50 Years'', a 2010 review volume published by World Scientific * ''

Beneath Ceaseless Skies ''Beneath Ceaseless Skies'' (''BCS'') is a fantasy adventure online magazine published in the United States by Firkin Press. History ''Beneath Ceaseless Skies'' first issue was released on October 9, 2008 featuring stories by Chris Willrich an ...

'', a fantasy magazine * ''

Buddhist-Christian Studies ''Buddhist-Christian Studies'' is an academic journal covering the historical and contemporary interrelationships between Buddhism and Christianity. It includes articles, conference reports, book reviews, and sections on comparative methodology an ...

'', a scholarly journal

Science

BCS theory In physics, the Bardeen–Cooper–Schrieffer (BCS) theory (named after John Bardeen, Leon Cooper, and John Robert Schrieffer) is the first microscopic theory of superconductivity since Heike Kamerlingh Onnes's 1911 discovery. The theory descr ...

of conventional superconductivity, named for Bardeen, Cooper, and Schrieffer *

Biopharmaceutics Classification System The Biopharmaceutics Classification System (BCS) is a system to differentiate drugs on the basis of their solubility and permeability. This system restricts the prediction using the parameters solubility and intestinal permeability. The solubi ...

, a guidance for predicting the intestinal drug absorption *

Breast-conserving surgery Breast-conserving surgery refers to an operation that aims to remove breast cancer while avoiding a mastectomy. Different forms of this operation include: lumpectomy (tylectomy), wide local excision, segmental resection, and quadrantectomy. ...

, a surgical procedure less radical than mastectomy

Codes

* BCS, the IATA code for

Southern Seaplane Airport Southern Seaplane Airport is an airport and seaplane base located two nautical miles (4 km) northwest of the central business district of Belle Chasse, in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, United States. Facilities and aircraft Southern Seapla ...

in the state of Louisiana, US * BCS, the ICAO code for

European Air Transport (Belgium) European Air Transport N.V./S.A. (EAT) was a cargo airline headquartered in Brussels Airport (Building 4–5) and in Zaventem, Belgium, founded in 1971 and dissolved in 2010. It expanded by contracting with DHL Worldwide Express in 1985, became ...

, a defunct cargo airline * BCS, the National Rail code for

Bicester North railway station Bicester North ( ) is a station on the Chiltern Main Line, one of two stations serving the market town of Bicester in Oxfordshire. Services operated by Chiltern Railways run south to and north to , and . Bicester North is one of Bicester's ...

in the county of Oxfordshire, UK * BCS, the NYSE stock ticker symbol for

Barclays plc Barclays PLC (, occasionally ) is a British multinational universal bank, headquartered in London, England. Barclays operates as two divisions, Barclays UK and Barclays International, supported by a service company, Barclays Execution Services ...

, a UK-based bank

Other

Battery Computer System The gun data computer was a series of artillery computers used by the U.S. Army for coastal artillery, field artillery and anti-aircraft artillery applications. For antiaircraft applications they were used in conjunction with a director computer ...

, a small computer used by the US Army for computing artillery fire mission data *

Projektron BCS Projektron BCS is a web-based project management software for planning, managing and controlling a multitude of projects simultaneously.{{cite book , author=Dr. Frederik Ahlemann , author2=Kristin Backhaus , title = Project Management Sof ...

(Business Coordination Software), a web-based project management software *

Baja California Sur Baja California Sur, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Baja California Sur, is a state in Mexico. It is the 31st and last state to be admitted, in 1974. It is also the second least populated Mexican state and the ninth-largest state by ...

, state of Mexico * Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian or

Serbo-Croatian Serbo-Croatian ( / ), also known as Bosnian-Croatian-Montenegrin-Serbian (BCMS), is a South Slavic language and the primary language of Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro. It is a pluricentric language with four mutually i ...

, a pluricentric South Slavic language *

British Crime Survey The Crime Survey for England and Wales (previously called the British Crime Survey) is a systematic victim study, currently carried out by Verian (formally known as Kantar Public) on behalf of the Office for National Statistics (ONS). Curated by ...

, an independent study of crime in the UK * Bryan-College Station metropolitan area (usually styled as ''B/CS''), a metropolitan area in Texas * ''

Better Call Saul ''Better Call Saul'' is an American legal crime drama television series created by Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould for AMC. Part of the ''Breaking Bad'' franchise, it is a spin-off of Gilligan's previous series, ''Breaking Bad'' (2008–201 ...

'', TV series