SSC may refer to:

Education

Schools and universities

Australia

  • Sydney Secondary College, 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

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, 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, the certificate given to students graduating from a secondary school in India, Pakistan or Bangladesh
  • Secondary School Leaving Certificate examination

Organizations

Businesses

  • Shanghai Supercomputer Center, a high-performance computing service provider
  • Shared services center, outsourcing
  • SSC North America, an automobile manufacturer
  • Specialized System Consultants, a private media company
  • Swedish Space Corporation, a Swedish government-owned company
  • Southern Star Central Gas Pipeline, based in Owensboro, KY

Governmental organizations

  • Saudi Space Commission, government agency of Saudi Arabia
  • Secretaria de Seguridad Ciudadana, armed law enforcement agency in Mexico City
  • Shared Services Canada
  • Space Systems Command, 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, 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, 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
  • Sunday Service Choir, an American gospel group led by rapper Kanye West
  • Society of the Holy Cross (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 of the International Union for Conservation of Nature
  • Statistical Society of Canada, promotes use and understanding of statistical methods

Places

  • Shaw Air Force Base, South Carolina, US (FAA code)
  • Stennis Space Center, Mississippi
  • Second Severn Crossing, 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 North Eastern State since 2025
  • 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
  • Shanghai Supercomputer Center, a high-performance computing service provider
  • Synchronous serial communication
  • 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
  • SinuSoidal Coding used for audio in MPEG-4 Part 3
  • Samsung Seamless Codec used for wireless audio via Bluetooth - proprietary A2DP audio codec

Life sciences

  • Systemic sclerosis, 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 process of faster muscular contraction after a dynamic stretch
  • Side-scattered light, a parameter of flow cytometry

Physical sciences

  • Spatial Synoptic Classification system, which is a way of diagnosing the climate of a location using air mass theory
  • Sulfide stress cracking, a type of corrosion
  • Super star clusters, in astronomy, possible progenitors of globular clusters
  • Superconducting Super Collider, 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 (STATCOM), a power electronics voltage-source converter

Sport

  • Saudi Sports Company, company of a television network
  • Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, a venue for international cricket matches in Colombo, Sri Lanka
  • Sinhalese Sports Club, a first-class cricket club based in Colombo, Sri Lanka
  • Southern States Conference, a defunct NAIA conference in the United States
  • Soviet Super Cup, a defunct association football cup in the Soviet Union
  • Speed Skating Canada
  • Sunshine State Conference, a sports organization in Florida

Other uses

  • Hull classification symbol for coastal submarine
  • Safe, sane and consensual, a practice in BDSM
  • Scottish Submarine Centre, a naval museum in Scotland
  • SkyscraperCity, an online forum for urban discussion
  • Slate Star Codex, a blog about philosophy, psychiatry, and pharmacology
  • South–South cooperation between developing countries
  • Strawberry Shortcake
  • Syrian Satellite Channel, a satellite television channel owned by RTV Syria