I can’t speak for the current state of affairs at the U of C, but back when I was a student (in the – gasp! – 80s) the Econ majors were held in contempt by most of the other students.
The student body wasn’t particularly left wing but Econ was viewed as a pseudoscience and those who majored in it either lazy or stupid. So I would not assume that the neoliberals in Econ are particularly representative of the rest of the student body.
(Favourite motto: The University of Chicago, where fun comes to die)
