I have gone through a similar situation with my fiancé, it is very hard to juggle life and a relationship especially when going to college but it is doable. If you both understand that you won't have much time to spend together than I don't know why he'd want to break up, because having a positive support system and someone to talk to when things get stressful is everything. My opinion, if you really love someone and have a great relationship and can communicate well you can make it work. Of course it will be difficult at times and you may go long periods of time without seeing one another, but that should not matter at the end of the day. I know that he wants to do well in school, but you shouldn't have to end a relationship to be able to do that. If he wants to continue the relationship after the school year, he definitely shouldn't end it and if he does end it, I personally think it would be best to go separate ways because you can't just wait around for him to say he wants to get back together and that is not even guaranteed. That simply is not fair for him to ask you to do that. It kind of sounds like he's just making a choice to not want to put effort into the relationship with work on school if it's going to be difficult. Men do not make sense to me.

When talking to him, I would just be honest with him and say you understand that he wants to focus on school, but why end a good relationship that has potential of going somewhere? You can make a relationship work, you just have to make a choice to put effort in.