A scheduling method and apparatus are provided for soft handover in a user equipment (UE) in in a mobile communication system supporting an enhanced uplink packet data service. A receiver receives dedicated scheduling assignment information for dedicated scheduling assignment from a serving Node B, and receives at least one scheduling grant indicator for common scheduling assignment from at least one non-serving Node B. A first scheduling decider determines a combined scheduling grant indicator by combining at least one scheduling grant indicator received from the at least one non-serving Node B. A second scheduling decider determines whether to use the combined scheduling grant indicator according to a predetermined reference, and a maximum rate of an uplink according to the dedicated scheduling assignment information or the combined scheduling grant indicator. A transport format decider determines a transport format of an uplink within the maximum rate.