USP

USP may refer to:

Government institutions

• Unité Spéciale de la Police, a special unit of the Luxembourg Grand Ducal Police
• United States Penitentiary, a high-security type of facility within the U.S. federal prison system
• Utah State Prison, located in Draper, Utah, United States

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

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 in the United States

Other uses

• Unified settlement planning, a form of holistic planning model in India
• Unique selling proposition, a marketing concept proposed in the 1940s to explain a pattern among successful advertising campaigns
• United States Pharmacopeia, a compendium of drug information
  • United States Pharmacopeia unit (USP unit), a standard dosage unit for drugs and supplements, equal in most cases to the international unit
• Urs Samyuktha Paksha, an Indian political party
• Useful space principle, a principle of bridge bidding
• USS Saint Paul, the name of more than one U.S. Navy ship
• Uttama Seva Padakkama, a military decoration in Sri Lanka
• Uspantek language (ISO 639 code: usp), a Mayan language