In Statistics they teach programming. For example we have studied one semester C, one semester OOP (C++), one semester SQL and relational database design. All these were must courses. Other than these also R, Matlab, Minitab, SPSS and SAS. All of my classmates knew programming. It is stupid to think that in this age a statistician won't be able to write a program. How you are going to make analyses of a population census in a country as a statistician? Statistical packages do not always provide all you need. Sometimes you need to transform a data. Sometimes you need to check/validate a data. Sometimes you need to query from an X location. Sometimes you need to pipe through some process. Few people from our department wrote R packages that didn't exist (new statistical analyses).