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Apple is gearing up their 2009 university student-targeted promotion, and it turns out this year is a lot like last year:

A Mac has everything university students need for school. And now it includes something extra special. When university students buy a qualifying Mac, they’ll get a free iPod touch after mail-in rebate. And they save even more with Apple education pricing. This offer is for a limited time and is available only at the Apple Online Store, Apple Retail Stores, and Apple Authorized Campus Stores.

Rumor was we’d see an iPhone option this year, but no such luck. Let jokes about mail-in rebate success levels begin!

(Thanks to everyone who sent this in.)

TUAW’s reporting that Brian Brooks, Dean of University of Missouri’s Journalism School is requiring that students have an iPhone or iPod touch. Why? So they can keep digital recordings of their lectures handy and listen to them more than once. Seems — shock and disbelief — repetition enhances learning.

Required is a key word, since it allows students to include the iPhone cost for their financial aid. They won’t insist students have one, however, or — apparently — give detention to anyone who shows up with a Zune instead…

Hey, maybe they should just record every lecture as a podcast and put it up on iTunes U? : )