Academic literature regarding state lotteries' impact on education deals primarily with issues of funding, rather than searches for evidence of lotteries directly advancing the cause of higher education, by measuring enrollment numbers before and after the adoption of a state lottery. This study fills this void by researching whether state-operated lotteries increase the number of higher education students in the South. The research employs pooled time-series, cross-sectional regression analysis to test the data and suggests that state-operated lotteries are not significantly correlated with increased enrollments in institutions of higher education, as many practitioners and scholars originally anticipated. (Contains 5 tables.)