Choose your course first, then the unis. For engineering and Earth Science/Geology the best unis aren't always the name brand ones, arguably they're normally not.
Only you can decide which course you will find the most interesting, so do your research to decide which subject and career path you like best. This is particularly important for engineering because if you fall out of love with it during your course it's going to go a lot worse than if that happens with other subjects.
Pretty much any subject is fine for finance. Certain jobs within finance etc will prefer quantitative backgrounds in which case you might want to look for a degree titled Materials Engineering or Materials Science and Engineering.