Provided are a method and apparatus for requesting scheduling for an uplink data transmission in a wireless communication system. The method may include receiving, by a user equipment, an additional scheduling request (SR) resource configuration information including additional SR resource information and buffer size information configured to the additional SR resource in addition to a default SR resource from a base station, transmitting, by the user equipment, an SR through the default SR resource or the additional SR resource to the base station, receiving, by the user equipment, an uplink resource allocation information which is determined according to the resource in which the SR is transmitted from the base station, and transmitting, by the user equipment, the uplink data to the base station through a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) resource which is allocated by the uplink resource allocation information.