Schizophrenia is defined as "the splitting of the soul", which refers to a state in which a person’s thoughts and feelings are not aligned. Schizophrenia belongs to the group of psychotic disorders whose common feature is loss of contact with reality. Throughout history, already since the oldest civilizations, certain human behaviours and symptoms appeared that we would classify today under the diagnosis of schizophrenia. According to data from the World Health Organization, 7.5 million people worldwide suffer from schizophrenia. Schizophrenic patients are often stigmatized by society because of their illness, and to avoid this, they start a process of self-stigmatization, which is by no means good for their health. Stigma can be prevented through education. The aim of this research was to determine the knowledge and attitude of nursing students at the Faculty of Health Studies in Rijeka towards people suffering from schizophrenia. The research was conducted among full-time and part-time students in the first, second and third year of undergraduate professional studies: nursing. An anonymous questionnaire created by the author of this paper was used to collect the data. The survey questionnaire was developed on the "Google forms" platform and was delivered to the respondents via social networks during July and August 2022. The questionnaire contained 34 questions and consisted of three parts: questions about sociodemographic data, questions about schizophrenia and questions about the attitudes towards people with schizophrenia. The questionnaire was filled out by 83 nursing students. The respondents' answers are presented through graphs and tables and are described numerically and in percentages. The obtained results showed that full-time and part-time nursing students do not have enough knowledge about this disease and that they do not have a stigma towards people suffering from schizophrenia.