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List of Residential Colleges

Residential colleges are named for important figures or places in university history or notable alumni; they are deliberately not named for benefactors.

1. Berkeley College – named for the Rt. Rev. George Berkeley (1685–1753), early benefactor of Yale.
2. Branford College – named for Branford, Connecticut, the town in which Yale was founded.
3. Calhoun College – named for John C. Calhoun, vice-president of the United States. The smallest college.
4. Davenport College – named for Rev. John Davenport, the founder of New Haven. Often called "D'port".
5. Ezra Stiles College – named for the Rev. Ezra Stiles, a president of Yale. Generally called "Stiles," despite an early-1990s crusade by then-master Traugott Lawler to preserve the use of the full name in everyday speech. Its buildings were designed by Eero Saarinen.
6. Jonathan Edwards College – named for theologian, Yale alumnus, and Princeton co-founder Jonathan Edwards. Generally called "J.E." The oldest of the residential colleges, J.E. is the only college with an independent endowment, the Jonathan Edwards Trust.
7. Morse College – named for Samuel Morse, inventor of Morse Code. Also designed by Eero Saarinen.
8. Pierson College – named for Yale's first rector, Abraham Pierson.
9. Saybrook College – named for Old Saybrook, Connecticut, where Yale was briefly located.
10. Silliman College – named for noted scientist and Yale professor Benjamin Silliman. About half of its structures were originally part of the Sheffield Scientific School,
11. Timothy Dwight College – named for the two Yale presidents of that name, Timothy Dwight IV and Timothy Dwight V. Usually called "T.D."
12. Trumbull College – named for Jonathan Trumbull, 18th-century governor of Connecticut.