By the end of the war more than 186,000 black soldiers had joined the Union army; 93,000 from the Confederate states, 40,000 from the border slave states, and 53,000 from the free states. Black soldiers faced discrimination as well as segregation.
List of colleges and universities near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. There are 59 colleges within 50 miles of Pittsburgh. Located in Pennsylvania with a population of 305,704, the closest colleges are ranked by distance from Pittsburgh. The nearest college is Bradford School at a distance of 1.5 miles from Pittsburgh center.
University of Pittsburgh is a public institution that was founded in 1787. It has a total undergraduate enrollment of 19,123, its setting is urban, and the campus size is 145 acres. It utilizes a semester-based academic calendar. University of Pittsburgh's ranking in the 2018 edition of Best Colleges is National Universities, 68. Its in-state tuition and fees are $19,080 (2017-18); out-of-state tuition and fees are $30,642 (2017-18).