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PRUDENTIAL SHORT-TERM CORPORATE BOND FUND, INC.

ANNUAL REPORT ^· DECEMBER 31, 2013

Fund Type

Corporate Bond

Objective

High current income consistent with the preservation of principal

This report is not authorized for distribution to prospective investors unless preceded or accompanied by a current prospectus.

The views expressed in this report and information about the Fund’s portfolio holdings are for the period covered by this report and are subject to change thereafter.

Mutual funds are distributed by Prudential Investment Management Services LLC (PIMS). Prudential Fixed Income is a unit of Prudential Investment Management, Inc. (PIM), a registered investment adviser. PIMS and PIM are Prudential Financial companies. ^© 2014 Prudential Financial, Inc., and its related entities. Prudential Investments, Prudential, the Prudential logo, Bring Your Challenges, and the Rock symbol are service marks of Prudential Financial, Inc., and its related entities, registered in many jurisdictions worldwide.

February 14, 2014

Dear Shareholder:

We hope you find the annual report for the Prudential Short-Term Corporate Bond Fund, Inc. informative and useful. The report covers performance for the 12-month period that ended on December 31, 2013.

We recognize that ongoing market volatility may make it a difficult time to be an investor. We continue to believe a prudent response to uncertainty is to maintain a diversified portfolio of funds consistent with your tolerance for risk, time horizon, and financial goals.

Your financial advisor can help you create a diversified investment plan that may include funds covering all the basic asset classes and that reflects your personal investor profile and risk tolerance. Keep in mind, however, that diversification and asset allocation strategies do not assure a profit or protect against loss in declining markets.

Prudential Investments ^® is dedicated to helping you solve your toughest investment challenges—whether it’s capital growth, reliable income, or protection from market volatility and other risks. We offer the expertise of Prudential Financial’s affiliated asset managers* that strive to be leaders in a broad range of funds to help you stay on course to the future you envision. They also manage money for major corporations and pension funds around the world, which means you benefit from the same expertise, innovation, and attention to risk demanded by today’s most sophisticated investors.

Thank you for choosing the Prudential Investments family of funds.

Sincerely,

Stuart S. Parker, President

Prudential Short-Term Corporate Bond Fund, Inc.

*Most of Prudential Investments’ equity funds are advised by Jennison Associates LLC, Quantitative Management Associates LLC (QMA), or Prudential Real Estate Investors. Prudential Investments’ fixed income and money market funds are advised by Prudential Investment Management, Inc. (PIM) through its Prudential Fixed Income unit. Jennison Associates, QMA, and PIM are registered investment advisors and Prudential Financial companies. Prudential Real Estate Investors is a unit of PIM.

Your Fund’s Performance (Unaudited)

Performance data quoted represent past performance. Past performance does not guarantee future results. The investment return and principal value of an investment will fluctuate, so that an investor’s shares, when redeemed, may be worth more or less than their original cost. Current performance may be lower or higher than the past performance data quoted. An investor may obtain performance data as of the most recent month-end by visiting our website at www.prudentialfunds.com or by calling (800) 225-1852.

Growth of a $10,000 Investment

The graph compares a $10,000 investment in the Prudential Short-Term Corporate Bond Fund, Inc. (Class A shares) with a similar investment in the Barclays 1–5 Year U.S. Credit Index by portraying the initial account values at the beginning of the 10-year period for Class A shares (December 31, 2003) and the account values at the end of the current fiscal year (December 31, 2013) as measured on a quarterly basis. For purposes of the graph, and unless otherwise indicated, it has been assumed that (a) the maximum applicable front-end sales charge was deducted from the initial $10,000 investment in Class A shares; (b) all recurring fees (including management fees) were deducted; and (c) all dividends and distributions were reinvested. The line graph provides information for Class A shares only. As indicated in the tables provided earlier, performance for Class B, C, Q, R, and Z shares will vary, due to the differing charges and expenses applicable to each share class (as indicated in the following paragraphs). Without waiver of fees and/or expense reimbursement, if any, the returns would have been lower.

Past performance does not predict future performance. Total returns and the ending account values in the graph include changes in share price and reinvestment of dividends and capital gains distributions in a hypothetical investment for the periods shown. The Fund’s total returns do not reflect the deduction of income taxes on an individual’s investment. Taxes may reduce your actual investment returns on income or gains paid by the Fund or any gains you may realize if you sell your shares.

Source: Prudential Investments LLC and Lipper, Inc.

Inception returns are provided for any share class with less than 10 calendar years of returns.

Your Fund’s Performance (continued)

The average annual total returns take into account applicable sales charges, which are described for each share class in the table below.

The returns in the tables reflect the share class expense structure in effect at the close of the fiscal period.

Benchmark Definitions

Barclays 1–5 Year U.S. Credit Index

The Barclays 1–5 Year U.S. Credit Index is an unmanaged index of publicly issued U.S. corporate and specified foreign debentures and secured notes that meet specific maturity (between one and five years), liquidity, and quality requirements. It gives an indication of how short- and intermediate-term bonds have performed. Barclays 1–5 Year U.S. Credit Index Closest Month-End to Inception cumulative total returns as of 12/31/13 are 4.68% for Class Q and 50.34% for Class R. Barclays 1–5 Year U.S. Credit Index Closest Month-End to Inception average annual returns as of 12/31/13 are 2.53% for Class Q and 4.35% for Class R.

Lipper Short/Intermediate Investment-Grade Debt Funds Average

The Lipper Short/Intermediate Investment-Grade Debt Funds Average (Lipper Average) represents returns based on an average return of all funds in the Lipper Short/Intermediate Investment-Grade Debt Funds category for the periods noted. Funds in the Lipper Average invest primarily in investment-grade debt issues (rated in the top four grades) with dollar-weighted average maturities of one to five years. Lipper Average Closest Month-End to Inception cumulative total returns as of 12/31/13 are 3.19% for Class Q and 42.23% for Class R. Lipper Average Closest Month-End to Inception average annual returns as of 12/31/13 are 1.72% for Class Q and 3.71% for Class R.

Investors cannot invest directly in an index or average. The returns for the Index would be lower if they included the effects of sales charges, operating expenses of a mutual fund, or taxes. Returns for the Lipper Average reflect the deduction of operating expenses, but not sales charges or taxes.

*Less than 0.05%.

Allocations reflect only long-term investments and are subject to change.

**Source: Moody’s rating, defaulting to S&P when not rated by Moody’s.

***Approximately 7.5% of Not Rated is invested in affiliated money market mutual fund.

Credit Quality is subject to change.

Strategy and Performance Overview

How did the Fund perform?

The Prudential Short-Term Corporate Bond Fund ’s Class A shares returned 0.89%, underperforming the 1.24% gain of the Barclays 1–5 Year U.S. Credit Index (the Index), which does not include the effect of mutual fund operating expenses. However, the Fund’s Class A shares outpaced the Lipper Short/Intermediate Investment-Grade Debt Funds Average, which declined –0.20% for the year.

How did the short-term U.S. investment grade corporate bond sector perform?

The short-term investment grade corporate bond sector, as measured by the Index, posted a modest gain of 1.24% for 2013. Bond market performance hinged as much on fluctuations in policy as on changes in the economy. Although 2013 began calmly, in the second quarter, fears of the Federal Reserve (“Fed”) tapering its bond buying program, along with an increase in U.S. economic momentum later in the year, raised interest rates worldwide.

Which strategies or holdings contributed the most to the Fund’s performance?

Which strategies or holdings detracted the most from the Fund’s performance?

Strategy and Performance Overview (continued)

Did the Fund’s use of derivatives affect performance?

The Fund’s investment strategy does not heavily rely on derivative strategies, although it does employ certain instruments on a limited basis. Treasury futures are used to manage the Fund’s interest rate risk, which is more efficient than managing interest rate risk through the purchases and sales of cash corporate bonds. Credit default swaps are used sparingly to either add risk exposure to certain issuers, or to hedge credit risk imposed by certain issuers. Neither derivative strategy discussed above had a material impact on the Fund’s performance.

Fees and Expenses (Unaudited)

As a shareholder of the Fund, you incur two types of costs: (1) transaction costs, including sales charges (loads) on purchase payments and redemptions, as applicable, and (2) ongoing costs, including management fees, distribution and/or service (12b-1) fees, and other Fund expenses, as applicable. This example is intended to help you understand your ongoing costs (in dollars) of investing in the Fund and to compare these costs with the ongoing costs of investing in other mutual funds.

The example is based on an investment of $1,000 invested on July 1, 2013, at the beginning of the period, and held through the six-month period ended December 31, 2013. The example is for illustrative purposes only; you should consult the Prospectus for information on initial and subsequent minimum investment requirements.

Actual Expenses

The first line for each share class in the table on the following page provides information about actual account values and actual expenses. You may use the information on this line, together with the amount you invested, to estimate the expenses that you paid over the period. Simply divide your account value by $1,000 (for example, an $8,600 account value ÷ $1,000 = 8.6), then multiply the result by the number on the first line under the heading “Expenses Paid During the Six-Month Period” to estimate the expenses you paid on your account during this period.

Hypothetical Example for Comparison Purposes

The second line for each share class in the table on the following page provides information about hypothetical account values and hypothetical expenses based on the Fund’s actual expense ratio and an assumed rate of return of 5% per year before expenses, which is not the Fund’s actual return. The hypothetical account values and expenses may not be used to estimate the actual ending account balance or expenses you paid for the period. You may use this information to compare the ongoing costs of investing in the Fund and other funds. To do so, compare this 5% hypothetical example with the 5% hypothetical examples that appear in the shareholder reports of the other funds.

The Fund’s transfer agent may charge additional fees to holders of certain accounts that are not included in the expenses shown in the table on the following page. These fees apply to individual retirement accounts (IRAs) and Section 403(b) accounts. As of the close of the six-month period covered by the table, IRA fees included an annual maintenance fee of $15 per account (subject to a maximum annual maintenance fee of $25 for all accounts held by the same shareholder). Section 403(b) accounts are charged an annual $25 fiduciary maintenance fee. Some of the fees may vary in amount, or may be waived, based on your total account balance or the number of

Fees and Expenses (continued)

Prudential Investments funds, including the Fund, that you own. You should consider the additional fees that were charged to your Fund account over the six-month period when you estimate the total ongoing expenses paid over the period and the impact of these fees on your ending account value, as these additional expenses are not reflected in the information provided in the expense table. Additional fees have the effect of reducing investment returns.

Please note that the expenses shown in the table are meant to highlight your ongoing costs only and do not reflect any transactional costs such as sales charges (loads). Therefore, the second line for each share class in the table is useful in comparing ongoing costs only and will not help you determine the relative total costs of owning different funds. In addition, if these transactional costs were included, your costs would have been higher.

*Fund expenses (net of fee waivers or subsidies, if any) for each share class are equal to the annualized expense ratio for each share class (provided in the table), multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by the 184 days in the six-month period ended December 31, 2013, and divided by 365 days. Expenses presented in the table include the expenses of any underlying portfolios in which the Fund may invest.

The Fund’s annualized expense ratios for the year ended December 31, 2013 are as follows:

Net operating expenses shown above reflect fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements. Additional information on Fund expenses and any fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements can be found in the “Financial Highlights” tables in this report and in the Notes to the Financial Statements in this report.

See Notes to Financial Statements.

Portfolio of Investments

as of December 31, 2013 continued

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