In reply to Rob Exile Ward:
had this problem with my son and an MChem a couple of year back. He was holding identical AAB offers from Liverpool, Machester, Brum, York and Leeds.
As far as I could tell Identical courses too. (They are all acredited by RSC so the sylabus must be close)
He discounted Liverpool as Too close (12 miles) from home. Manchester because he thought the city too agressive (As a mank myself it's 15 years since I set foot in the city). And leeds fell bacause he felt Brum and York more friendly.
He put York 1st and Brum as a back up, because the students at Brum were a bit "up themselves" and I thought their Bursary system was 'flawed' .
In the end I suspect it was the layout of the campus that appealed.