The present invention relates to a method for transmitting uplink control information in a wireless access system and a terminal for the same. More particularly, the method comprises the following steps: attaching, if the bit size of uplink control information is larger than a preset number, cyclic redundancy check to the uplink control information; calculating the number of wireless resource elements for transmitting the uplink control information to which the CRC is attached; coding the uplink control information to which the CRC is attached, using a tail biting convolutional coding (TBCC) technique, based upon the calculated number of the wireless resource elements; and transmitting a physical uplink shared channel signal containing the coded uplink control information to a base station, wherein the uplink control information is either hybrid automatic repeat and request acknowledgement/negative acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK/NACK) information or rank indication (RI) information.