BC

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
 * Baja California, a state of Mexico

BC may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

 * "B.C.", a song by Sparks from the 1974 album Propaganda
 * B.C. (comic strip) by Johnny Hart, and one of its characters
 * BC (video game) by Lionhead Studios
 * BC The Archaeology of the Bible Lands, a BBC television 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)

United States

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

Worldwide

 * 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
 * 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
 * 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

 * 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."
 * 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)