USP

USP may refer to:

Government institutions

 * Unité Spéciale de la Police, Luxembourg
 * United States Penitentiary, a prison
 * Utah State Prison, Draper, US

Math and science

 * Ultra-short period planets, orbiting planets with periods shorter than one day.
 * Ultraspiracle protein, a part of the ecdysone receptor
 * Universal stress protein, a protein superfamily
 * USp (2n), a symplectic group in the mathematics of group theory
 * USP grade, a level of chemical purity

Technology

 * United States patent
 * Heckler & Koch USP pistol
 * Ultrashort pulse laser, a laser that emits ultrashort pulses of light, generally of the order of femtoseconds to hundreds of femtoseconds
 * Universal Storage Platform, brand name for a Hitachi Data Systems line of enterprise storage arrays
 * Unified shader processors, used in GPUs
 * USP (Victoria), a Russian satellite bus

Universities

 * University of São Paulo, a public university in Brazil
 * University of the Sciences in Philadelphia, United States
 * University of the South Pacific, a public university with a number of locations in Oceania
 * University of Southeastern Philippines, an educational institution in Mindanao, Philippines
 * University of Southern Philippines Foundation, an educational institution in Cebu, Philippines
 * University Scholars Program, a scholarly community at Duke University; see John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary and International Studies

Other uses

 * Unified settlement planning
 * Unique selling proposition/Unique selling point, in marketing
 * United States Pharmacopeia
 * Urs Samyuktha Paksha, an Indian political party
 * Useful space principle, in the game of bridge
 * Uttama Seva Padakkama, a military decoration in Sri Lanka
 * Uspantek language (ISO 639 code: usp), a Mayan language