Just one data point, but I'm currently at school for Computer Engineering and we learn and use VHDL and Verilog for several courses. We use it to program Altera FPGA's.
Glad to hear it's still being taught! I was using Altera FPGAs too, although I suspect they're quite a lot higher gate count now. (My second year project was an FPGA implementation of the EDSAC computer from the 1940s - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_delay_storage_autom...)