Maybe that was true 20 years ago, but most CS curricula offer mandatory (static) functional programming classes.
Maybe that was true 20 years ago, but most CS curricula offer mandatory (static) functional programming classes.
I did both my undergraduate and MS in the past decade, worked in academic research for a few years, and am currently in a PhD program. At the schools I've been at and schools I know well due to friends/collaborators, I think what I said still tends to be true for mandatory ("core") classes.
You are right, however, that students who choose to take an elective in a statically typed functional language are probably more likely to come away with a healthier relationship with their compilers, but this is only a portion of all students.
Maybe most top 10 programs do, but in general the variation in CS curricula is incredibly broad and includes tons of Java schools that only focus on imperative and OO paradigms with only passing mentions of functional programming in elective classes.
I really have no idea if the data to support the claim even exists. One would probably have to manually comb through CS curricula to check. My suspicion is that it would not hold up.