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.

Andrew Patterson, Jr (1961 - 1967)

John Whitney Hall (1967 - 1969)

Vincent Joseph Scully, Jr (1969 - 1975)

Jacques Eugene Henri Guicharnaud (1972 - 1973)  acting

Richard Horace Granger (1975 - 1982)

William Wolfgang Hallo (1982 - 1987)

Donald Quinlan (1987 - 1995)

Stanton Wheeler (1995 - 2001)

Frank Keil (2001 - 2011)

Amy Hungerford (2012 - 2015)

Catherine Panter-Brick (2015 - Present)

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

Robert Lynn Fischelis (1963 - 1966)

David Paul Behan (1966 - 1970)

Brenda Lu Jubin (1970 - 1973)

Eva Susan Balogh (1973 - 1979)

James Robert Rush (1978 - 1984)

Elizabeth Frances Archibald (1982 - 1983)  acting

Bruce Kimball (1984 - 1985)

Christopher F. Givan (1985 - 1986)

Paul R. Sullivan (1986 - 1990)

David Schwartz (1990 - 1991)  acting

Paul R. Sullivan (1991 - 1995)

Glenn Wallach (1995 - 1998)

Rosemary Jones (1998 - 1999)  acting

Rosemary Jones (1999  - 2004)

Alexandra F. Dufresne (2005 - 2007)

Joel Silverman (2007 - 2017)

Angela Gleason (2017 - Present)