An apparatus and method controls transmission power by a Base Station (BS) of a wireless communication system by considering a path loss between the BS and a terminal and interference affecting adjacent cells. A receiver receives information about interference from adjacent BSs and a terminal. A calculator calculates transmission power of the terminal using the information about interference received from the adjacent BSs and the terminal. The information about interference received from the adjacent BSs comprises Noise & Interference (NI) values, and the information about interference received from the terminal includes a path loss value.