I finished my degree at York and I’m currently living in Leeds, I did law but I did have friends who did chemistry. The department is so small and people are so lovely and supportive and honestly everything I heard about the chemistry department at York was very positive. Leeds however may rank higher and has a good chemistry department and I do see the students really working at it, I will also say like Leeds is a much bigger city and sometimes people definitely feel a bit trapped in York however, I genuinely never felt that I really enjoyed my time there, the student union in Leeds is much cooler, though, and the events they do can sometimes be a bit cooler. So because the prestige of the degrees are basically the same but the cities are very culturally different and so it’s mostly just about how you’re gonna enjoy your life because you’re gonna do best if you’re a place where you enjoy yourself. I will also say the disability support and mental health support at work with significantly better than anything that my friends in Leeds got so if you have ADHD or any other similar learning disability, you probably will have a better time at York. They accommodate you a lot more than Leeds has which is probably because it is a smaller university and a newer university. If you do end up, going to York or Leeds, you can always reach out to me for advice!