It's back to school time for the iPhone.

When new students walk onto Abilene Christian University's campus in three days, they will be given T-shirts, orientation packets and either an iPhone or an iPod touch.

They're not the only ones. A number of U.S. schools plant to distribute the sleek Apple devices to incoming students this fall. Some, like Oklahoma Christian University and Tennessee's Freed-Hardeman University, are pairing the devices with MacBooks as a student technology package. Others, such as Texas-based Abilene Christian and the University of Maryland, are promoting the devices as a mobile learning initiative.

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