I don't think it's justifiable to pay that much money for a pt education. In the end, each student, DPT or MPT will take the exact same test to get their license. Why pay pay more for an education for the exact same license? I applied and and was accepted to USC and upon consideration of its many offers, I simply couldn't imagine having to pay 130k+ for graduate school in a profession hoping to make ~65k+.
I understand that whole Trojan family concept, but the need for physical therapists are on the rise nation wide, so it shouldn't be difficult finding a job. Yes, they may have to do their own job hunting on their own rather than have the school do it for them, but that's not too bad of a task.
Rankings pretty much don't mean too much since it's based on the school self assessment of their program. Yes, you will have better facilities, and access to various resources, but I don't find it extremely worth paying the hefty price tag. I say go to the cheaper route with the other private schools and even the CSUs. In the end you don't want to be paying off a huge debt when you can be using that money to reward yourself from graduating buying that car you always wanted or even to take a trip you've wanted to do.