MCU

MCU may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

• MCU, Japanese hip-hop/rap artist, formerly of Kick the Can Crew
• Marvel Cinematic Universe, a shared fictional universe of films and TV series developed by Marvel Studios
• Medium close-up, camera direction used in British television scripts

Organizations

• Movement of Unitarian Communists (Movimento dei Comunisti Unitari), an Italian communist party
• Modern Churchpeople's Union, an Anglican liberal theological organisation
• Monte Carlo Universal, a computer software project to simulate particle transport using the Monte Carlo method
• Municipal Credit Union, a credit union in New York City

Science and technology

• Media Control Unit, touchscreen interface on Tesla Model S
• Microcontroller unit, a single computer chip designed for embedded applications
• Memory controller unit, the part of a microprocessor responsible for interfacing it with main memory
• Milk clotting units, a measure of enzyme activity
• Minimum coded unit, the pixel block size of a JPEG computer image
• Mitochondrial Calcium Uniporter, a calcium channel in a human cell's mitochondria
• Modular Concept Unit, the basic avionics packaging compliant with ARINC Specification 600
• Moisture cure polyurethane coatings, corrosion-resistant marine and protective coatings
• Multi-chip unit, a system that contains the processing units of the VAX 9000 minicomputer
• Multipoint control unit, a device used to bridge videoconferencing connections

Universities

• Marine Corps University, U.S. Marine Corps military graduate school
• Ming Chuan University, Taipei, Taiwan
• Manila Central University, Manila, Philippines
• Marymount California University, Palos Verdes, CA, USA

Other

• Major Crimes Unit in various works of fiction (part of the Gotham City Police Department in the Batman comics; agency of the Chicago Police Department in the TV series Crime Story; division of the L.A.P.D in the movie Heat)
• Montluçon - Guéret Airport, France, IATA airport code