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Educational and cultural programmes for seniors positively encourage different academic, social and cognitive aspects of the students who participate in them, which may be related to their quality of life.The aim of this study is to analyse whether a relationship exists between quality of life and on-going participation in educational activities such as University Programmes for Seniors.To this end, we analysed the responses provided by students in the Senior Diploma programme of the Open University for Seniors during two academic years (2008-2009 and 2009-2010) in five main blocks: socio-demographic data, health data, social support data, leisure and free time data and lastly, data on the use of ICTs.The group of people evaluated showed us that they have common indicators that seem to suggest that they are generally satisfied with their lives, although there are several indicators in which there are differences, especially in the use of new technologies.The results affirm that the students analysed that attend this programme present very favourable scores compared with the general population. Subsequent longitudinal studies (or follow ups of the analysed groups) may provide more precise information on whether participating in an educational programme positively influences their perception of quality of life and establishes a new pattern of attitudes and behaviours that contribute to this improvement.