Are there any studies on how lecturer review sites such as Rate Your Lecturer affect student choices? A version of the lecturer review website Rate Your Lecturer recently became active in the UK.

Do you know of any studies which consider to what extent students use this or any other review websites to guide their choice of university?
This is necessarily incomplete, but I do recall a few studies on the correlation between ratemyprofessor.com rankings and student evaluations. Two such studies are:


Hotness and Quality
Student evaluations and RMP


These are disappointingly old though (2006/2007)

There's a more recent study from 2011:


Researchers and RMP


As for other studies, your google is as good as mine :)