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.

Charles Seymour (1931 - 1937)

Samuel Burdett Hemingway (1937 - 1950)

Thomas Corwin Mendenhall (1949 - 1949)  acting

Thomas Corwin Mendenhall (1950 - 1959)

Charles Allen Walker (1959 - 1969)

Robert Triffin (1969 - 1977)

Robin William Winks (1977 - 1990)

Harry Stout (1990 - 2001)

John Rogers (2001 - 2006)

Norma Thompson (2006  - 2007)  acting

Marvin Chun (2007 - 2016)

David A.D. Evans (2016 - Present)

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

Charles Edward Scott (1963 - 1966)

Richard Henry Bell (1966 - 1969)

Peter Miner Briggs (1969 - 1974)

Benjamin F. Ward (1974 - 1980)

James Robert Rush (1976 - 1977)

Patricia Pierce (1980 - 1985)

Frances Kleinman (1985 - 1989)

Laurence H. Winnie (1989 - 2000)

George Levesque (2001 - 2005)

Kevin Hicks  (2005 - 2010)

Mia Reinoso Genoni (2010 - 2016)

Renita L. Miller (2016 - Present)