I was really surprised when I got to college and the only languages people cared about were C++ and Java. Ok, you'll also find some C#, Python, and Ruby, but nobody has heard of any of these "advanced" languages. The only thing they care about are the number of job opportunities they can get. I sometimes try to advocate for Haskell, or Scheme, or even Prolog. The response is usually "Pascal?" It's sad that these students never wonder if there's a better language, or a more fun language, or anything other than Java. It's a desert out here.
I've been reading some blog posts here http://existentialtype.wordpress.com/ about the curriculum at Carnegie Mellon and I've been very impressed. I can't believe they're phasing out object-oriented programming! Here the faculty seem to think object-oriented is the only way. Actually I can't think of any functional programming we've been introduced to. (Or any other paradigm for that matter)
o_O I don't know about you guys, but our CS affiliation requirement includes at least one semester of Functional Programming (using ML rather than Haskell, I know for sure that CMU (ML) and Berkeley (Scheme/ML) have similar requirements too). Java's seen as the bane of the world over here, especially since none of our professors are convinced that OO is more than just a little bit of syntax sugar coated over some generic imperative language (and as far as I can tell, I'm starting to agree with them).
AFAIK it is pretty common for most universities in Germany to start CS programs with either (S)ML, OCaml, Haskell or any combination of these depending upon the individual preferences of the responsible chair.
Java is (was?) pretty common for introductory OO classes. Advanced OO classes (outside of a "Software Engineering" context) though often introduce Eiffel, Smalltalk, Python, C++ and C# as well.
Depending upon your particular choice of courses, specialization etc., being exposed to Lisp, Prolog, Perl, C and R isn't uncommon either and from what I heard Scala is also starting to appear as a teaching language.
From what I heard the curriculum in France, Swiss, Austria and Denmark is very similar. So I am a bit surprised of the notion that there are universities out there where you can get a CS degree without being exposed to some functional programming.
The university I went to covered Java and x86 assembly in first year. Haskell, Prolog, MIPS assembly and more Java (for algorithms and data structures) in second year. C++(C with classes really) and yet more Java in third. Fourth year languages depended on optional courses, I did some SR[1] for concurrent programming course and matlab for DSP.
Besides x86 and Java, the other languages we covered weren't in terribly high detail, but enough to get a taster for whats out there. I would have liked more focus on a pure functional language, Haskell in our case, but overall we covered quite a lot of great material.
Most people (besides a handful of people like me who like non-mainstream languages) didn't really care much for anything but Java though, sadly.
