The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for processing a precoder. The method comprises: step A: a base station determining whether the number of received effective precoders reported by a certain UE is greater than or equal to a threshold a, if so, executing step B, otherwise, executing step D; step B: the base station determining whether each received effective precoder is according to the same number of layers, if so, executing step C, otherwise, executing step D; step C: the base station determining whether a variation speed of each effective precoder is fast, if so, applying a transmit diversity transmission mode to the UE, otherwise, applying a MIMO transmission mode to the UE; and step D: applying the MIMO transmission mode to the UE. Therefore, the present invention can reasonably predict the transmission mode and the precoder that should be employed in the transmission mode at current time for a certain UE.