| Very sorry to hear of the travail seeking an answer to years of health problems. The great news is that you now know the cause and that the effects are abating nicely even if slowly.
FIT was founded by aerospace and electronics engineers and many of the biggest donations to build structures come from the founders of nearby high tech firms (e.g. Radiation, Inc. which is now part of Harris Corp) and from senior execs at companies like RCA that were involved in the space race at Cape Kennedy. People like Werner Von Braun were supporters of the school. RCA built the first science building, the Crawford Science building. Other supporting firms included Western Electric and TRW. Your son's intended major is at the heart of the school. He will feel very much in the mainstream. The school motto is "Ad Astra" - "to the stars".
The aeronautical school is a separate college, mainly housed near the airport and separate from the main college campus. Flight training is part of that school, but nonexistent in the main programs and for the non-aeronautical students. The best analogy of this schools relationship to the main colleges would be at Cornell University, which has multiple colleges including one for future hotel employees. Those enrolled in the arts and sciences college would not have any classes on hotel administration; that college is quite separate. It is a pretty small part of FIT, with just 7% of the undergrad population. Engineering is the biggest at 36%, with sciences the second biggest - all this excluding University College which provides the distance learning, certificates and contining education outside of the full time undergrads.
During my time, electrical engineering was probably the biggest major but space sciences was the second big focus. Physics, math, business and oceanography were other choices. In my day it was one four year college with most of the majors, then the off campus aeronautical and Hydro Technical institutes. Now it has forked into several distinct colleges while the aeronautical school, then focused most on flight training, has grown to a full four year college and the marine institute became an integrated oceanography department in one of the main colleges. | 
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