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.
Student Life. University of Pittsburgh has a total undergraduate enrollment of 18,908, with a gender distribution of 49 percent male students and 51 percent female students. At this school, 44 percent of the students live in college-owned, -operated or -affiliated housing and 56 percent of students live off campus.