CBE is the initialism for Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, a grade within the British order of chivalry.

CBE may also refer to:

Travel

  • CBE, IATA code for Greater Cumberland Regional Airport.
  • CBE, ICAO code for Aerocaribe, airline based in Cancun, Mexico.
  • CBE, National Rail station code for Canterbury East railway station
  • CBE, Railway code for Coimbatore Junction
  • Cross Bronx Expressway, a major freeway in the New York City borough of the Bronx.
  • Cranbourne railway station, Melbourne

Communications

  • CBE, the former callsign of the CBC Radio One AM station in Windsor, Ontario.
  • CBE-FM, callsign of the CBC Radio Two FM station in Windsor, Ontario.

Banking

  • The Central Bank of Egypt, the central (or reserve) bank in Egypt.
  • Commercial Bank of Ethiopia, an Ethiopian bank founded in 1963.

Education

  • CBE, Competency-based education, another term for Competency-based learning
  • Calgary Board of Education, public school board for the city of Calgary, Alberta.

Science

  • Cannabielsoin, a component of cannabis
  • Carbon Balance Error, the error in accounting for Carbon in a mass balance
  • Cat-back exhaust, a type of automotive exhaust.
  • Cell Broadband Engine, a multi-core general purpose CPU developed jointly by Sony, Toshiba and IBM.
  • Center for the Built Environment, a research institution at UC, Berkeley.
  • Chemical beam epitaxy, a thin film growth method using beams of molecules.
  • Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, a branch of engineering dealing with the physical and life sciences.
  • College of Built Environments, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.
  • CBE, International Meteor Organization designation for meteor shower Coma Berenicids.
  • Collisionless Boltzmann equation in plasma physics and gravitational dynamics.
  • Common Base Event, a computing term referring to IBM's implementation of the Web Services Distributed Management (WSDM) Event Format standard.
  • Council of Biology Editors, a former name of the Council of Science Editors, who publish the CBE style guide.
  • Current Best Estimate, a common expression of related to the highest fidelity value known at the time.

Honours

  • Conqueror of the British Empire, a self-awarded title of the Ugandan dictator, Idi Amin.

Sports

  • Brazilian Fencing Confederation, or Confederação Brasileira de Esgrima
  • College Basketball Experience Classic (CBE Classic), pre-season college basketball tournament.
  • Civilization: Beyond Earth, a 2014 video game

Religion

  • Christians for Biblical Equality, a Christian organization primarily focused on advocating gender equality.
  • Congregation Beth Elohim, a Reform synagogue in Brooklyn, New York founded in 1861

Other organizations

  • Communities for a Better Environment