BC most often refers to:

  • Before Christ, a calendar era based on the traditionally reckoned year of the birth of Jesus of Nazareth
  • British Columbia, the westernmost province of Canada

BC may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

  • B.C. (comic strip), by Johnny Hart, also the title character
  • BC (video game), a cancelled game from Lionhead Studios
  • BC: The Archaeology of the Bible Lands, a BBC television series
  • "B.C.", a song from the 1974 album Propaganda by Sparks
  • Black Clover, a Japanese manga and anime series
  • Bullet Club, a professional wrestling stable

Businesses and organizations

  • Basilian Chouerite Order of Saint John the Baptist, an order of the Greek Catholic Church
  • BC Card, a Korean credit card company
  • Bella Center, a conference center in Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Brasseries du Cameroun, a brewery in Cameroon (also known as SABC)
  • Brunswick Corporation (NYSE ticker symbol BC)

Education

United States

  • Bakersfield College, Bakersfield, California
  • Bellevue College, Bellevue, Washington
  • Benedictine College, Atchison, Kansas
  • Benedictine Military School, a high school in Savannah, Georgia
  • Bergen Catholic High School, Oradell, New Jersey
  • Boston College, a university in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts
  • Boston College Eagles, its athletic teams
  • Brazosport College, Lake Jackson, Texas
  • Broward College, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
  • Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, New York

Elsewhere

  • Baccalaureus or bc, a Bachelor's degree in the Netherlands
  • Baghdad College, a high school in Baghdad, Iraq
  • British Council

Science and technology

  • Backcrossing, a crossing of a hybrid with one of its parents, or a genetically similar individual
  • Backward compatibility, the ability of new software to work similarly to its predecessor
  • Baden culture, an archaeological culture in Europe
  • Ballistic coefficient, a measure of air drag on a projectile
  • Base curve radius, a parameter of a contact lens
  • Battle command, a military discipline
  • Bayonet cap, a standard light bulb connection
  • bc (programming language), an arbitrary-precision calculator language
  • Black carbon, a carbonaceous component of soot
  • Bliss bibliographic classification, a library cataloguing system
  • × Brassocattleya or Bc., an orchid genus
  • Breadcoin, a community food token
  • Buoyancy compensator (diving), a piece of scuba diving equipment

Transportation

  • NZR BC class, a type of steam locomotive
  • Skymark Airlines (IATA airline code BC)

Other uses

  • Banbridge Chronicle, Northern Irish newspaper
  • Bullcrap, a phrase denoting something worthless
  • "B.C.", nickname of Burr Chamberlain (1877–1933), American football player and coach
  • Baguio, a city in the Philippines, locally abbreviated as "B.C."
  • Baja California, a state of Mexico
  • BC Powder, a brand of pain reliever
  • BookCrossing, a website that encourages leaving books in public places to be found by others
  • Botswana, WMO country code (and obsolete NATO and FIPS country codes)

See also

  • BC Cygni, a red supergiant star that is one of the largest stars
  • Belaruskaja Čyhunka (BCh), the national railway company of Belarus
  • Blind carbon copy (Bcc:), the practice of sending an e-mail to multiple recipients without disclosing the complete list of recipients