# SSC

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
* 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
* 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 Khatumo State 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
* 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

### 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