This scenario or something close to it will be repeated many times in your life and it never gets any easier. Make the choice based on whats best for you and your education. If you change programs just for him and it doesn't work out, you'll always resent him and yourself for it. Make your education your first priority and then do what you can to stay friends or try a LDR is likely to fail which is why you both don't want to try. Your on the right track.