UC may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

* '' University Challenge'', a popular British quiz programme airing on BBC Two ** ''

University Challenge (New Zealand) ''University Challenge'' is a long-running New Zealand television quiz show, running originally from 1976 to 1989 before its revival in 2014 after a 25-year hiatus. The format was based on the British show of the same name, which was itself ba ...

'', the New Zealand version of the British programme * Universal Century, one of the timelines of the ''Gundam'' anime metaseries

Education

In the United States

* University of California system ** University of California, Berkeley, its flagship university * University of Charleston, West Virginia * University of Chicago, Illinois * University of Cincinnati, Ohio * Upsala College, East Orange, New Jersey (''defunct since 1995'') * Utica College, Utica, New York *

Harvard Undergraduate Council The Harvard Undergraduate Council, Inc., colloquially known as "The UC," was the student government of Harvard College between 1982 and 2022, when it was abolished by a student referendum after a series of scandals. The UC had faced widespread ...

, Harvard College's student government body * University college

In other countries

Pontifical Catholic University of Chile The Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (''PUC or UC Chile'') ( es, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile) is one of the six Catholic Universities existing in the Chilean university system and one of the two pontifical universities i ...

* University of Canberra, Australia * University of Cantabria, Spain *

University of Canterbury The University of Canterbury ( mi, Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha; postnominal abbreviation ''Cantuar.'' or ''Cant.'' for ''Cantuariensis'', the Latin name for Canterbury) is a public research university based in Christchurch, New Zealand. It was ...

, New Zealand * University of Cebu, Cebu City, Philippines * University of Coimbra, Portugal * University of the Cordilleras, Baguio, Philippines * Uva College, Badulla, Sri Lanka *

Uxbridge College Uxbridge College is a large general further education college in the London Borough of Hillingdon. Since 2017 the college has been merged with Harrow College, although it retains its individual identity. It has two campuses, in Uxbridge and in Hay ...

, England * University of Calgary, Canada

Science, technology, and mathematics

Biology and medicine

* Ulcerative colitis, a type of inflammatory bowel disease * Unassisted childbirth, birth without the aid of professional birth attendants * Umbilical cord

Computing and telecommunication

* UC Browser, a web browser for mobile devices * UC Mobile, a Chinese software company * Universal composability, a cryptographic model for protocols *

Microcontroller A microcontroller (MCU for ''microcontroller unit'', often also MC, UC, or μC) is a small computer on a single VLSI integrated circuit (IC) chip. A microcontroller contains one or more CPUs (processor cores) along with memory and programmable i ...

(abbreviated "uC" or "μC"), a computer-on-a-chip used to control electronic devices * Unified communications, the integration of real-time communication services

Other uses in science, technology, and mathematics

* UC (noise reduction) (Universal Compatible/Universal Compander), a vinyl record noise reduction system in the 1980s *

German Type UC submarine (disambiguation) German Type UC submarine may refer to: * German Type UC I submarine of WW1 * German Type UC II submarine Type UC II minelaying submarines were used by the Imperial German Navy during World War I. They displaced 417 tons, carried guns, 7 torpedo ...

German submarine U-C Foreign U-boats was the title for a special section created by Nazi Germany's '' Kriegsmarine'' that adopted 13 captured enemy submarines and a single Turkish vessel into the U-boat corps. Beginning in 1939 and lasting until the end of World War ...

of WW2 * Danish UC submarines (disambiguation) of Peter Madsen * Culver UC, a US Navy unmanned target drone *

Ultrasonic consolidation Ultrasonic Consolidation (UC) or Ultrasonic Additive Manufacturing (UAM) is a low temperature additive manufacturing or 3D printing technique for metals. The process works by scrubbing metal foils together with ultrasonic vibrations under pressure ...

, an additive manufacturing technology *

Uranium carbide Uranium carbide, a carbide of uranium, is a hard refractory ceramic material. It comes in several stoichiometries (''x'' differs in ), such as uranium methanide (UC, CAS number 12070-09-6), uranium sesquicarbide (U2C3, CAS number 12076-62-9), and ...

, a hard refractive ceramic material * Uniform polyhedron compound, a type of geometry * Universal Column, a type of H-beam * Folding boxboard, a paperboard grade *

Undercarriage Undercarriage is the part of a moving vehicle that is underneath the main body of the vehicle. The term originally applied to this part of a horse-drawn carriage, and usage has since broadened to include: *The landing gear of an aircraft. *The ch ...

, also known as landing gear, on aircraft *

Photon upconversion A photon () is an elementary particle that is a quantum of the electromagnetic field, including electromagnetic radiation such as light and radio waves, and the force carrier for the electromagnetic force. Photons are massless, so they always m ...

, an optical phenomenon

Other uses

* Centrist Union group, a parliamentary group in the French Senate * Undercover, the practice of disguising one's identity for the purposes of a police investigation or espionage *

Unified Cornish Unified Cornish (UC) (''Kernewek Uny '', ''KU'') is a variety of the Cornish language of the Cornish revival. Developed gradually by Robert Morton Nance during and before the 1930s, it derived its name from its standardisation of the variant spel ...

, a variety of the Cornish language * Union councils of Pakistan *

Unit cost The unit cost is the price incurred by a company to produce, store and sell one unit of a particular product. Unit costs include all fixed costs and all variable costs Variable costs are costs that change as the quantity of the good or service ...

, a business measure * United Center, a sports arena in Chicago * Universal Credit, a British social security benefit * University City, a neighborhood in northern San Diego * Upper case, in orthography and typography, denoting large or capital letters * Urban Council, a municipal council in Hong Kong * Unification Church, a new religious movement originally founded in South Korea * Uc, a classification formerly used by the British Board of Film Classification until 2009