An Indian applicant with no work experience asked me which of these universities would be better for employment in the finance sector. My response is below. What do you think?
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Congrats on being admitted at City and Manchester: these are are great schools (I am a graduate of both!). There's no shame in being turned down by Imperial or Warwick, as even the candidates turned down are excellent. There's only so many talented Indians they can admit, and you would need to have applied much earlier to be competitive there.

I would trust the FT ranking above QS for any topic where they both rank. If you want to work in the UK, Bayes has a huge location advantage with a campus in the middle of the finance district. The schools are close at the MBA level but, for example, Bayes MBAs earn more than AMBS MBAs in most years. And it's a stronger performer in the FT's EMBA, European, MiM and MiF rankings. AMBS would be a better choice for the MBA if you were a career-changer, because of the longer format. Bayes is a rock-star brand for postgraduate finance in the UK, while Manchester is a full-service business school that's probably good at everything but doesn't have that core finance reputation.

However, Manchester is much better known than City in India. City's upcoming merger with St Georges will produce a STEM-centred power-house and push both up in the university rankings. It's almost as if the University of London is trying to create a STEM rival to Imperial College (City joined the UoL after Imperial left). And it's a great fit for Bayes, which runs masters in healthcare leadership and non-profit management, and is already leveraging its expertise for finance, decision-making and supply chain in a healthcare setting. City already has a lot of momentum, as shown by the THES ranking: https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/city-university-london Similarly, St George's is already a leader in bringing business thinking around the education economy and service reconfiguration into healthcare.

However, although all of that is great news for the UoL and UK STEM and healthcare, City won't come close to Manchester in global branding. It has its 200th anniversary today! If you're trying to impress your future father in law rather than an employer, Manchester will have the edge. But, for the MiF, I think 19 out of 20 well informed applicants who didn't have a strong preference on location would pick Bayes.

There is no reason to choose Manchester University over Bayes City University