Provided are a method and apparatus for user equipment (UE) selection in a mobile communication system. The method may include: selecting the n−1th UE in multiple cells (n: constant ≧2); and selecting a UE with the maximum weighted sum rate (WSR) as the nth UE from among UEs belonging to the remaining cells excluding those cells containing the 1st to n−1th UEs. Hence, the scheduling function enabling suitable user equipment selection may further increase overall system throughput by providing additional gains in addition to beamforming, i.e. further reducing inter-cell interference and increasing signal strength toward a desired user equipment.