<p>The vast majority of internships with companies will be in the Southeast. If your son wants to have an internship outside the South his best bet would be to seek out research opportunities through programs such as REU (Research Experiences for Undergraduates). REUs are available at almost every university in the US. The research covers any field you can think of. </p>
<p>If he is dead set on the biomedical field then he should go to UAB and major in biomedical engineering. Our school, as feeno, pointed out has a chemical engineering program that is geared toward traditional chemical engineering.</p>