title: PCU
text: # PCU
  
  PCU can refer to:
  
  ## Education
  
  * Pacific Coast University, a law school in Long Beach, California
  * Pai Chai University in Daejeon, South Korea
  * Philippine Christian University in Manila, Philippines
  
  ## Finance
  
  * PCU, a former NYSE ticker symbol for Southern Copper Corporation
  * Patelco Credit Union, a credit union in California
  
  ## Politics
  
  * Partido Comunista de Unificación, the Communist Unification Party in Spain
  * Partido Comunista del Uruguay, the Communist Party of Uruguay
  
  ## Technology
  
  * PCU, the IATA airport code for Poplarville-Pearl River County Airport
  * Packet Control Unit, part of the Base Station Subsystem in a GSM network
  * Passenger Car Unit, a metric used in transportation engineering
  * Photo conductor unit, the fuser drum unit used in laser printers
  
  ## Other
  
  * PCU (film), a 1994 film lampooning political correctness on college campuses, set at the fictitious Port Chester University
  * Portage Credit Union Centre, an ice hockey and recreational complex in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba
  * Pre-Commissioning Unit, a description used for United States Navy vessels prior to commission and the personnel units assigned to them
  * Progressive care unit, an intermediate coronary care unit
  