Almost 550 public, private and parochial school graduates from Eddy County have qualified for Lottery Success Scholarships to attend college, including NMSU s Carlsbad campus, New Mexico Junior College in Hobbs, ENMU s Roswell Campus and the New Mexico Military Institute in Roswell. More than 850 students from Chaves and Lea Counties have also used Lottery Success Scholarships. More than 13,000 Lottery scholarship recipients have attended New Mexico colleges and universities since the program began, according to data from the New Mexico Commission on Higher Education. A sellout of this single game could generate more than 750 Lottery Success Scholarships for one semester. The New Mexico Lottery offers three different types of games.
Top prizes vary by game.
New Mexico education is the sole beneficiary.