Prior to 2016 the chief administrative officer of each of Yale's undergraduate residential colleges was given the honorific title Master, derived from the Latin magister and in common usage in the residential colleges of Oxford and Cambridge Universities. In 2016 the Yale Corporation voted to replace that honorific title with Head of College.

Elliott Dunlap Smith (1933 - 1946)

Sydney Knox Mitchell (1944 - 1945)

Everett Victor Meeks (1945 - 1946)

Basil Duke Henning (1946 - 1975)

William Huse Dunham, Jr (1955 - 1956)

Ethelbert Talbot Donaldson (1963 - 1964)

Elting Elmore Morison (1967 - 1968)

Charles Ralph Boxer (1970 - 1971)

Elisha Atkins (1975 - 1985)

Louis Lohr Martz (1978 - 1979)

Ann Ameling (1985 - 1990)

James Thomas (1990 - 1996)

Antonio Lasaga (1996 - 1998)

Harry Adams (1998 - 1999)

Mary E. Miller (1999 - 2008)

Edward Kamens (2008 - 2009)

Paul Hudak (2009 - 2015)

Thomas J. Near (2015 - Present)

The Dean serves as the chief academic officer in Yale's undergraduate residential college system.

Thomas Adams Noble (1963 - 1964)

James King Folsom (1964 - 1968)

Martin Ignatius Joseph Griffin, Jr (1966 - 1967)

Martin Ignatius Joseph Griffin, Jr (1968 - 1971)

Jacqueline W. Mintz (1971 - 1972)

C. Duncan Rice (1972 - 1978)

Susan I. Rice (1978 - 1980)

Thomas Peter Gariepy (1980 - 1985)

Norman C. Keul (1985 - 1993)

James R. Van de Velde (1993 - 1997)

Paul S. McKinley (1997 - 2003)

Lisa Collins (2003 - 2005)

Paul S. McKinley (2005 - 2012)

Christine Muller (2012 - 2018)

Ferentz Lafargue (2018 - 2023)

Adam Haliburton (2023 - Present)