According to AppleInsider, Apple is “intensively” considering the possibility of selling the iPhone 3G on college campuses. Campus iPhone availability will naturally kick off at schools where Apple already has a strong presence, but based on their assessment of demand in the next couple of months, Apple could be making the decision to aggressively push university iPhone sales.

As Ars Technica suggests, Apple’s move to market the iPhone on college campuses could be the first step in a new effort to branch out in sales. Now that the iPhone will require some kind of in-store contract signing to insure activation of the device on AT&T, Apple could get the device in front of a lot more consumers by starting on campus. If Apple truly wants to liberate the iPhone from the shelves of AT&T and retail Apple Stores, what better place to begin the movement than in institutions of higher learning?