Does anyone know anything about the Thomas Jefferson School of Law Distance Learning Tax program

I'd try the University of Alabama instead...
http://www.law.ua.edu/llmtax/

I attend Thomas Jefferson now as a J.D. candidate and can tell you the faculty is excellent; in terms of practical experience, teaching abilities, and reputations.

Ranking systems are primarily indicative of a school's "network" which enhances its students' opportunities to attain post-graduate employment in a relatively short period of time. Thus if your primary concern is education you will find no short fall at Thomas Jefferson. If networking opportunities are your primary concern then determine where you'd like to be employed and apply to the most "popular" school in that juisdiction.

Can anyone tell me something about the tax LL.M? Is it any good?

I'll throw in my two cents (I'm the Dean of the Thomas Jefferson LL.M. program and having served as Chairman of the Post Graduate Programs Committee for AALS, i.e. familiar with most programs).

First - Alabama has an excellent program aligned for young JD graduates to receive an very directed understanding of the US tax law. Dan Powell, its Director, is available and collegial with his students - a strong sign of a program that is student oriented.

I've been running my online program now for 11 years and normally only experienced practitioners apply (we are a hybrid LLM - MBA type program). Sometimes students without similar credentials and experience feel "out of water" toward our group case-study collaborative problem-solving approach we employ simulating the work environment of the multinational firms and companies that we serve.

By example, our current students include the International Trade Counself for Tyco, HSBC North America's head of Compliance Training, counsel of Standard Chartered's compliance department (who just offered 15 contract positions to our alumni), Head of International Tax, Revenue Department, Kenya, the current president of the Indian Tax Bar, and the tax counsel of IBO.

The average age of our students is 39 this year, one being 77, and another 70. The median range of experience is 10-14 range. We have several government and regulatory students such as one of the IRS consulting specialists for the Financial Instruments division (he's 60 y.o.).

Finally, we strongly encourage our students to work on publications while under our tutelage. Our program is contracted to revise and author books and chapters for many publishers, by example West (we just completed 4 Mertens chapters), Matthew Bender (e.g. Foreign Tax & Trade Briefs; Tax Havens of the World; Tax Treaty Withholding Guide), Kluwer (e.g. International Trusts and a new Compliance book) and Oxford (e.g. our new E-commerce Taxation book and the Free Trade Zones publication). We have just allocated several students to work on a new manuscript that we received a request from Edwards Elgars on addressing the economic and socio economic impact of international financial services on financial centers.

In that we only accept between 60 and 70 students a year and don't allow more than 15 in a course that we can have strong group and faculty interaction, I suggest to several applicants to apply to Alabama.

btw - we have 5 or so visiting students from other tax programs each year taking our niche courses like Offshore Finance.