Physical environment in higher education has been of interest since especially the beginning of the 21st century however very a few studies on this topic have been conducted for teacher education in Turkey. In this study, the main purposes were to identify the essential characteristics of physical environment to access quality teacher education and to discuss the importance and role of these physical characteristics for effective and efficient teacher education. A Delphi study with three phases was utilized as a research methodology. In the first phase of the study, data were obtained by one open ended question from 33 teacher candidates in three state and one private universities at Ankara and content analysis was used to analyze data. Then, the questionnaire developed according to the results of the first phase, was applied in two times in a one month interval. Data obtained by the second and the third phases of the study was analyzed by descriptive analysis and then, comparison between two applications was presented in the paper. As a result of the study, technology, ambient environment of the building and classrooms, the cleanliness of environment, the size of the classrooms, furniture and materials, spaces for social and academic activity were emerged as the most important physical characteristics. In discussion part, the importance and role of those places and physical characteristics for teacher education were discussed and presented.