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Abstract Infrastructure is the backbone of a teacher education institution to maintain the quality education. Infrastructure of teacher education institutions includes important elements like classroom, library, laboratories, recreational facilities, staff-office facilities and health-sanitation facilities. Teacher professional excellence means teacher capabilities in teaching, training with pedagogical and technological skills, and research aptitude resulting publication. The study was destined to find out the relationship between infrastructure and teacher professional excellence of teacher education institutions. Population was consisted of teachers of B.Ed. institutions of Binod Bihari Mahto Koyalanchal University (BBMKU), Dhanbad; Ranchi University (RU), Ranchi; and Vinoba Bhave University (VBU), Hazaribag; Sample of 154 teachers from 25 colleges under BBMKU, RU and VBU taken and primary data were collected by standardized tool 'B.Ed. Infrastructure Quality Observation Schedule' and 'Teacher Professional Excellence Tool'. Data were analysed by Pearson correlation by use of SPSS software. Findings showed that there is no significant correlation between the infrastructure and teacher professional excellence of teacher education institutions, (p=0.492, N=22) at 0.05 level of significance. The study reflects that teacher professional excellence is not significantly associated with the infrastructure of teacher education institutions, that teacher are independent of infrastructure, at the same time infrastructure facilities are essential to bring up quality education for the learners and so institutional learning output.