To Maya or To 3D Studio Max?

To Maya or To 3D Studio Max?
I posted a few days ago about how I was learning this program Maya, however when we got into our seminar today, I was shocked to discover that we will be using 3D Studio Max. My tutor Andy explained that it was kind of like the PC vs MAC thing and only a matter of preference however I could tell that his preference was leaning strongly towards 3D S Max. But Pixar and RARE use Maya, can they be wrong? Anyway what I've decided is that different companies are going to have different ways of working and are going to be using lots of different programs.

Therefore I'm going to learn them both, obviously I'm going to focus of 3D Studio Max for the minuite because it's the program were using for the Identities module, but I want to keep my options open. Having Maya as a skill will be too valuable to not bother with it, so while I'm at Uni and I've got all of these free tutorials and programs I might as well make the most of it.