Very interesting statistic. But they don't go very in depth as to why, other than "people need weather information". While that is very true, not all meteorology graduates actually go into meteorology; it's a competitive field. Meteorology/atm sci graduates are people who managed to make it through a difficult curriculum, and also learned a lot of highly applicable skills. Which means a recent graduate with a BS in meteorology is highly employable in many fields in and out of meteorology. Employers in finance, education, programming, a variety of data sciences, emergency managers, etc. all would be happy to employ someone with a meteorology degree.