First of all, for such a programme, lanca, umist and nottin have similar teaching stardard but the city of Man is better than others---Big china town.
For university, Manchester is one of the leading institues in europe although it looks worse than before. the Manchester Management School combines the strengh of both umist and U of Man and was ranked No.1 B-shools by FT in 1999.
Two reasons make me choose UMIST. Anyway, Lancaster puts most of its importance on accounting and finance department and the teaching staff is very strong. however, the city is quite boring.
Birmingham is not as good as other three b-shools, not in the same level.