Your situation may be very different than mine, but for me personally, cost is a big factor in my decision-making. This is because I'll be paying for PT school almost exclusively with loans, which will start accumulating interest as soon as I take them out (at 5.31-6.31% for the federal ones). When I graduate, I expect my starting salary to be around $65,000/year before taxes. Most of the programs I'm considering cost more than that in tuition alone. The rule of thumb that I've heard is you shouldn't take out more in loans than you expect to make as a starting annual salary. This will basically be impossible for me, unless I get into my in-state program, but I'm trying to minimize my debt as much as possible.
At 6% interest compounded annually, a $10,000 loan that I take out first year becomes almost $12,000 by the time I graduate three years later. 10 years after I graduate, if I still haven't paid any of that $10,000 off, I'm now over $20,000 in debt, over double what I started at. That's a scary prospect, considering the actual numbers (for loans I'll need to take out) will likely be closer to 10 times that (100K).
If I have 100K in loans after graduating, to pay it off in 10 years, I'd need to put over $1,100/month towards loan repayment, and that 100K loan becomes $133K that I actually end up paying. If I want to pay it off sooner, say in 5 years, I'd have to put down $1,900+, or nearly half my monthly take home pay, towards this debt.
So, for me, anyways, I'd look at the differences in cost of tuition and cost of living for the three programs, and figure out if the extra $10,000, $20,000 or whatever difference in cost (and the amount of hours/weeks/years I'd have to later work to pay that much more), is worth being closer to home, not having to take an extra class, not having to start DPT school immediately after finishing undergrad, etc.