Goal of contemporary psychiatric treatment is improvement of the quality of life of the mentally ill. Being that quality of life is of special importance for the process and final result of the mental condition, it is very important to identify factors that are responsible for the improvement or deterioration of the quality of life of the patients. Purpose of this research is a discovery of the difference in the quality of life in patients with various type of schizophrenia treated in the hospital environment. QOL was assessed with 30 female schizophrenics classified in accordance with ICD X criteria. LQOLP and BPRS were used. Paranoid schizophrenics treated in the hospital environment have higher objective and lower subjective QOL in regard to other schizophrenics.